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- W?r -r ? -,rt - *A " ;V" . r~w~~\t n n 9 % u Tn% i ' -^1 The Abbeville Press and Banner. | BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17,1889. VOLUME XXXIII. NO. 49. ijj A Quiet Mind. ".MY I'T-r.UK I filVli I NTO Yol\" I liavim treasure which I prize, Us like I cannot lind; It's fur beyond what earth can give, 'Tis ttiis?A quiet mi lid. Hut 'tis not that I am stupefied, Or senseless, dull, or blind; "J'is (iodV own |teiii'C wlt'iln my heart. Which forms my quiet mind. I found this treasure at the Cross, And there, to every kind ' Of weary heavy-laden souls, ('hristyives a quiet mind. '['he love of (tod within my heart My heart to llim doth bind : This is the peace of heaven and earth, This is my <|Uicl mind. I've many a cross to take up now. And many lefr In hitnl; Hut present troubles move me not. Nor shake my quiet mind. And what may tie to-morrow's cross I never seek to Ilnd, My Saviour says, "Leave that to Me, And keep a quiet miml." Ami well I know tin* Lord hath said. To make my heart resigned. That mercy still shall foilow those Who have this quiet mind. I'm waiting mow to suck mv l,or<l, Who's boon to i??o <f> kind: I w:ui( to thank him t'uc<" to face, For this my (juii't miml. Extracts from Jonathan and his Con* tiliciit. i:y max o'icklti. Hut lot us take our scats at the table d'hote of tlir best hotel in any second rate town that you please in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, or souk* other State in the I'nion. No printed menu. A young woman, with an elaborate < ill'ure of curls, rolls and hangs, hut no cap, approaches, darts'a look <?f contempt :il you and, turning her back upon von.! gabbles oil' in one breath : "(.'routaupoturhot shrimpsauce roast beefturkey cranberry sauce potatoes toniatoesapplctarlminccpievauilhicri'ain. Do not attempt to stop lu*r: >!ie iwound up, and when she is started is bound to go to the end. You must not hope that she will repeat the menu a second time either. If you did not hear, so much the worse for you. Unfortunately the consequences are grave ; it is not one dish that you tni.-s ?it is the whole dinner. You are obliged to order all your repast at once. nua xne wnoie is urougm you, uwm soup to chcesc, al one time. I was so ill inspired one day as to order some soup to begin with. The waitress refused downright to bring me anything more. "That is all you ordered," she said to me. ''You do not suppose I can myke twenty journeys to the kitchen for you." I rose and sought the hotel keeper. : I made the humblest apologies, pleaded that I was a foreigner who had only been in America a fortuight, and was not yet accustomed to the habits of the Americans. 1 promised solemnly never to transgress again in this way. Mine host went to tinyoung person who was at the head ol | the buttalion of harpies in the dining room, and interceded for me with her. 1 had the happiness of being forgiven, and was allowed to appease my hunger. From that day forward, as soon as one of these witching damsels began her incantation, I cried out: "Hold! Enough! Bring it all in.'' Then 1 would eat the least distastc ful of the messes and leave the rest. 1 can assure you the Hotel uui uoi mawe much profit out of me. This is how the dinner is served : Tie "duchess" begins by Hinging a spoon and knife and fork down on the table in front of you. It is for you to set them straight, and 1 would advise you to do so without any murmuring. When you have taken your soup, the' said "duchess" brings you a plate, around which she places a dozen little oval dishes in a symmetrical fashion that one can but admire. The first little dish contains fish and a teaspoonful of sauce of some kind. It is needless to inquire the name of this sauce. All the tisli sauces are the sanitf ; only the name varies. The sec-j ond apparently contains a little him] of raw beef; the third a slice of mast turkey; the fourth mashed potatoes, the fifth a stewed tomato, the sixth cranberry sauce, the seventh chicken salad, the eigth some rice pudding, and the last contains (horribilc dictu !.'{ a slice of apple tart, with a large help-, ing of cheese in the middle of it. These two things are eaten together, jind are conseolientlV served on the: same disli. You begin at the left. The first pro-1 seats lio obstacles hut its bones anil is! soon disposed of. You turn your attention to the next dish tin tiie right j and attack the beef. It is impregua-t hie, you can make no impression up:>n j it. You pass. The turkey is not obdurate and you fall to on that, making little raids on the potatoes, tomatoes and cranberry sauce between each mouthful. Thanks to the many climates of America (the thermometer varies in winter from 73 above zero in j south to 4-> below in the north), you have turkey and cranberry sauce all ] the winter, strawberries six months of the year and tomatoes all the year round. Oh, the turkey and cranberry sauce! j I ate enough of that dish to satisfy mej for the rest of my days. No more turkey and cranberry sauce for mo, though I should live to be a hundred ! Of course all the meats, placed around your plate, soon bejjin to cool, and you have 110 choice but to holt your food, diving with knife and fork iDto the little dishes right and left as dexterously as you can. Finally you come to the apple tart 011 the extreme right. You carefully lift the cheese and, placing it aside, prepare to eat your sweets without this strange seasoning. I'nhappily the pastry has become impregnated with an odor of roqucfort, and again you pass. A vanilla cream terminates your repast. Having disposed of this, you ask i-miriuitr wliv in :i free countrv. you I J J 1 . . ? luay not have your various courses served one after tlie other, why you must bolt your food and bring oil indigestion, and above all why the manager of Ihe hotel, in bis own interest as a man of business, does not before all else study the comfort of bis customers. The answer is not difficult to find. It is the well being of the "duchess," and not that of the travelers, that he devotes his attention lo studying. The traveler is obliged to come to his house, and he can treat him anyhow. His "helps" will only consent to stay with him, on condition he gives them heavy wages and light duties. Religious freedom often means freedom from religion. Tin? Saurliiication of the 3Io??e--lts Salvation* liV I'UKSIDKXT W. A. CAXDLKH, 1>. I>. The* report of Hon. Carroll D. j Wright to Congress on the statistics of marriage and divorce in the United States is a sadly instructive document. It appears that during the last twenty years there have been granted in the' United States oiiS,71(; divorces. During the lirst year of this period there were granted ; during the last year an appalling increase. The report discloses facts which reveal the causes of this growing evil very clearly. 1. It appears that in hut five States and the District of Columbia can the numher of marriages be obtained with anything like completeness. Marriage is evidently too liirhtly regarded by all classes of our people. Sixty-five per cent, of the whole milliner <u divorces ^nunui ?*- *irranlcd to women, and of these cruelly, desertion and intemperance were tiie alleged causes of fully ninety per cent. It would lie interestinj; and instructive to know to what extent the factor of intemperance enters into those cases for which desertion and cruelty are the alleged causes. The saloon is the chief enemy of the home, and the home is the support and defense of the State. And herein is found another illustration of the truth that the State must destroy the saloon <?r be destroyed by it. It does not appear on the face of ihesc wretched returns how much vicious publications have contributed to I>riiifi- to pass the horrible results; l>u( that they have done much, few intelligent persons familiar with the social conditions of our country will deny. The daily press reports domestic infelicities with crime-ill feeling familiar-' ity and sporiivencss. Proceedings in; suits for divorce are published with a diabolical jocoscness that seems utterly intiiHerein to the domestic iraged ie.recorded. All such prints are most vicious in character and vitiating in influence. They deserve and should rcIln, iviniviliotinn .,1| <rnf>d OPO pie. 1 . The radical correction of all this evil is a higher appreciation of the sanctity of the home and the marriage relation on which true homes rest. When our people fully appreciate the sanctity of their homes they will be adequately impressed with the iniquity of the saloon. If our country is to !>e a country of happy homes it can not be a land of open bar rooms. Again no man who rightly conceives the sanctity of his home, or his own responsibility as its head will allow a reprous newspaper lo enter his house, nor will he read such a sheet. We repeat it, the sacrcdness of the hotne needs to bej|emphasized. This will arrest the growing evil of divorce. Hereby the pestilential sources 01 divorces will be dried up. The sanctification of the home will prevent the desecration which works the disgrace and destruction of the family. The Outcasts of Loudon. In these days when we hear so much of the poverty, crime, and wretchedness of outcast London, it is refreshing to have the obverse of the medal occasionally held uj) before our eyes. The lie v. George XV. McCree,. a wellknown pastor and philanthropist of Southwark, sends to the Daily News a very encouraging account of the progress that is being made in removing the cause of "the bitter cry" that still 1:00s up from theabodes of poverty and misery. Mr. McCree is covinced that the poor of London are far less poor, less ignorant, less wretched, and less vicious than they were twenty-five years ago. In the matter of sports the people are less cruel brutal and depraved than they were. They are cleaner in their hahUs, and consequently more healthy. There is less disease and a wider aequantance with sanitary laws. Not only can nearly all the poor read, inif (lmv iln i-pmiI nnrl with much that is evil there is far more that is healthful in their literary tastes. The consequence is that they are far more quick ami intelligent, ami aspire more than they did to further social improvement. There.is every reason to hope that this philanthropy of the day is turning the electric lights of sanitary science a ml Christian sympathy upon the darkest corners ami slums of the great city, and revealing depths of misery whose existence was unknown and unsuspected. Uut the light does !iot create the misery, though it may help to disperse it. The knowledge that the evil is being gradually overcome will not discourage philanthropic efl'orl.hut rather stimulate it l>y adding the impetus of quickened hope. And if the progress has been encouraging in the past, it should bo much more rapid, in the future, for never before wer so many powerful agencies at work for the regeneration of the "lapsed masses." o # m ' Two Towns?A Conthast.?Vineland, New Jersey, has a population of ten thousand: '.here is a clause in every deed forbidding the sale of liquor. During six months no citizen required any assistance from the overseor of the poor. During one year there was one indictment and that for disturbance between two colored persons: there were but three fires, and only one house burned : the taxes are only one percent., and there is no debt. The police expenses are seventy-five dollars a year. A lit!letown in New England, of less than ten thousand inhabitants, maintains forty grog shops; a police judge, city maivhalls, four night watchmen, and six policemen for the protection of the peace of the town. Four fire companies of forty men costing three thousand dollars a year, are called out, on an average, every other week; it costs two thousand and five hundred dollars a year to support the poor, and the township owes one hundred and wenty thousands dollars. mt&' ? Auks ok Animals.?A sleep lives ten years. A cat lives fifteen years. A lion lives twenty years. A camel lives forty years. A bear lives twenty years. A dog lives fourteen years. A squirrel lives eight years. An ox lives twenty-live years. A guinea pig lives seven years. A horse lives twenty-five years. A whale lives three hundred years. A tortoise lives one hundred years. An elephant lives four hundred years. It is said there are two words, and two only, in our language, which contains all the vowels in their regular order. They are?"abstemiously" and "facetiously." "Wliiit is <rutli ?"? I'ilnJc. The arithmetic that teaches the problem of our present standing in the political or civilized world seems to have been learned by John, to whom was revealed the things to come. He saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon each horn was a diadsm. One of the prominent governments for the past eighteen hundred years has been (ireat Britian, whose capital is on an island "out of the sea," upon whose domain the sun does not cease to shine, and whose lands extend to every clime? great in wealth, great in power, great in civilization; heads, horns, and diadems; lords, kings, and civil law. An occurrence of which is fitting, and resembles the beast. Satan is entitled to all this, for it is of the world. And we find in these ex hibits the origin of that law, that power, that civilization, which is only a beast compared with the Just Onehe who rebukes many peoples, 'l'heir Ifiu.' isc if iia! fni' cnfV?t\r%> Tli^ir civili zation, is it not for gain, and their power for aggression :>inl aggrandizement ? The observing and discerning mind will percieve that these lords and kings, and feudal maxims, are but the adverse of Christianity. Again John informs us that he saw another beast rise up out of the earth, and having two horns like a lamb. Tl ie iirst beast rose up out of the sea ; but this other one out of the earlh. And may we not suppose that its two horns typified a union of power not mi like tlu% Constitution and Congress of America? Its law-making, its civilization, like that of Knglish?its eagle and their lion - do not favor Christianity. Their laws, (ho fundamental principle of which is for safely in the aeciunillation of wealth, stand opposed \ in their very derlaration to liio authorti...? ; i ..m., i 1..... uj <>i nun ?iios:ini, ?>j\ Kinguuin is not of thi.s world." He shall rebuke, many peoples. These are facts concerning which "we have many tilings to say, aud that which is difficult to explain, because you have become dull of hearing." You who "ought to be teachers," have need to learn the first rudiments of the Christian religion. We need to cry aloud with words that burn that your perceptive faculties may be awakened to discern between ilie things that differ. That the jurisprudence of the courts is adverse to Christianity is abundantly evident, although in some points they are in Harmony, aud have for their object the well-being of uiau. Yet the source aud character of many, very many constitutional and congressional acts are directly or indirectly opposed to that authority which is from Heaven. is not a Uog a domestic animal? made so by civilization, training, aud withal very'sociable; but he is nevertheless a dog. Lords and kings, those iu authority, the powers that be, are in open rebellion against Him whose kiuudom, be cause of its character ami object, is not of this world. Under the rule of this beast no oue can buy or sell without the "mark," legal authority, dictates cunningly devised for the safety and power of wealth. To this end we Have political strife, military bands, fortresses, all marshaled for protection and aggression in the same mauner as of old, and in the name of the Constitution and "the Continental Congress." But we have the authority of Him who spake not as man, and whose words were accompanied by signs and miracles, that lie who seeketh to save his life other than by peaceable means shall lose it; that is shall not attain to the life to come, eternal life. What, then, as Christians, can be our duty in the work of progressive civilization but to labor as a party separate aid distinct; a peculiar party, whose chief object is to convert by aggression to faith "once delivered to the on Buiiua . f The union, the- proposed fellowship, the deceptive and hypocritical connections, are a snare, a delusion to captivate and lead astray, and to end ill 1J kst K I'C'TI on . To those whom it may concern we have this declaration, tiiat "No [man can serve two masters." (?. 1'. il. Unests ol liiph Dcjfrcc. How often is the pathetic cry wrung from Christians, young and old, "When 1 would do good, evil is present with me"! Each one of you, doubtless, has some evil-mindcdnc?sof which you are sadly conscious, which seems to spring on you at every turn of life without your intention, without your desire, and without your seeming to have any power to prevent it. With some ii is angry thoughts roused by real or fancied wrongs, or jealousy of those who not do give them, they think, their full share of consid tTlilllUIJ, til *. !!> y <Jl Cilllll D IIIWIV IWIIIInuto, successful, and comfortable children, or discontent with their own lot, or disappointment at the failure of their plans, or any one of a thousand other phases of selfishness and sin which show themselves even in CJod's children against their will. Of course, your lirst and strongest defence against besettiug sin is prayer, but prayer must always go hand in hand with effort; and one wellproved way of driving off evil thoughts and tempers is by resolutely filling the mind with good thoughts. If you invite to your house and entertain constantly noble, high-minded people, you will be little troubled Willi vulgar or profane visitors: and s<?, if your mind has a fixed habit of entertaining high thought, these evil dispositions slink away ashamed. Hut you must have the subjects of thought ready to seize upon, or the crowding out will be the other way. For instance, when von feel unreasonable . 1 IUf.lt* anger overpowering .vou. sei to making plans of work for helping somebody; if envy takes hold of you, begin to study up some special field of foreign-mission work, have some noble poems at hand to learn, a book of pointed and practical suggestion*, like one of Spuree-m's, to dip info, or even a pure, elevating story-book to read at such times of danger. Every victory thus won over evil thoughts and feelings will weaken their hold on you, will send faintness into your enemy's ranks and will leave the citadel of your mind swept and garnished for guests of higher degree. Parents too seldom realize how early they can turn the baby twig in this way or that. Infantile rudeness is thought "cunning." But before the mother knows it the baby is a boy, and his rude ways bring a pang to her heart. Tlic ol' Ncoulnrizntioii. An article by Professor T. W. Hunt', Ph. 1)., of Princeton, in fhe independent, oil "Modern Theories of Culm re," ends with the following paragraph : If we seek the explanation of this vain attempt to educate mankind on purely rationalistic lines, it is found in those intellectual tendencies at work among us, of whore potent presence every man should be apprized. They are all reducible to the one word, secularization, as it ap|K-ars in our schools and colleges and general mental life. This tendency expresses itself, at times, in the form of extreme looseness of opinion as to the proximate and final ends of education ; at times, in the clamorous demand for wider freedom from moral restraint ns the undoubted right of the student of today; or in the deference of all educational interests to State control. Thi?, in geological phrase, is the trend of present opinion ; hence, not only muse clerical influence in our hoards of trustees be eliminated, but ail specific religious influence ami culture be, as it should be, purely mental, ft occurs to us to inquire, whither this steady drift toward seculnrl'/nfiAn if iunf. Invjf fr* ltd II 1 I \ / c IVI^iOVUj M*J t*W *HUV WW bring us. Tt is certainly unnecessary to repeat tlio follies of Continental Elirope in this regard and succeed in divorcing culture from character. There is a wisdom that defeats itself and there are some interests that cannot he furthered on purely political or human principles. The world is already weary of lh."> vain attempts of its" advanced thinkers" to satisfy its deepest needs by cold appeals to what is called the dignity of man and the marvelous results of human achievement. The first slop lor such "advanced-thinkers" to take is a step backward into tliej untrodden realm of intellectual humil-< ity and learn, at the outset, that in the j Kingdom of (Jod, faith is superior to knowledge, and spiritual agencies su-' periortoall that are natural and human. Nothing in modern educational systems and institutions needs to be more strongly emphasized than the Baconian idea of the end of all knowledge?"the glory of God and the relief of man's estate." This is the culture that, to use a phrase of Mr. Arnold's, "makes for righteousness" and this is the culture that ever tends to individual and national good. A Accessary Crime. Contradictory as these words are when rightly viewed, tiie very nearly describe Hie animus ot' an essay in the Jaiiury number of tlie A metec/tth Century. It is by Lord CJhas. Jjeresford, -Member of l'ai'liameut ami L'aptian in the lioyal .Navy, on ibe subject of "The British Eleet and Europe." After discussing, through ten pages, the present strength of the naval ouilit ot lireat Britain, in view of possible war with other European powers, he concludes with this language: "All that I have ever written or spoken on this point has been in the interest, and in the hope, of preserving peace for our Empire; for 1 believe that, if we became engaged in a war in which we?were lighting for our exisicnce, even if we were victorious, the interests of the whole world, as represented by civilization, justice, liberty, humanity, and commerce, would sutler. I cannot give my own opinion about war In better words than those of Brouylmin. in which he says: 'I isbominate war us unchristian; 1 hold it the greatest of liumuu crimes: I deem it to include all others?violence, blood, rapiue, fraud, everything which can deform tlie character, alter the nature, and debase the name of man.' liut while holding an opinion about was as strong as is thus expressed, I can lind ho words strong enough to convey what 1 believe would be the judgment of the peoples of the whole of our magnificent Empire, if we lost our great heritage, as we undoubtedly !should, were we caught unprepared through want of a sufllcentnavy." Thus we see that "the greatest of human critics, including all others," is contemplated, without hesitation, as suitable and necessary lor a nation professing to be Christian, whose monarch is the head of an establishment claiming to be, by Apostolic decent, a church of Christ. Could anything be much more of the nature of an apos(tasy from the true principles of such a jchurch? it may be yet long before even the churches, and much more the ! nations of the world come to see how true were those words spoken or written l>y DanK-l We Its lor, nearly half a century ago, in regard not only to personal but to political action: "A'othi uh/ which is wrovu can ever Oc expedient. " j Mom-: Mind, Mouh Madxkss.?It I is in no way surprising that insanity should seem to increase in races or classes which are being intellectually I stimulated by education. There is ali ways- in every community a proportion of brains which, being brought into ! action, will break down. This proportion doubtless diminishes as the community is elevated and in a very few 'generations the result of culture may i?probably will?be to develop a better I stock, looking upon the people as a j j whole ; but at the outset of the educa- j : tionary process, and in the generation | first taught, the immediate result must I lii> :> c(iiisi(li>r:ilil(( number of wreck ;inns. Tliis general principle is applicable to all races, peoples, and classes, iand it explains why the first effect of trying to elevate the negroes has been ! to produce an apparent increase of In1 sanity among them.?Lancct. I ! Virtue jn Onions and Heei\? i What is the most strengthing food for a convalescent? Well, you know the l>eef-tea theory has been exploded. The most life-giving and digestible , food that can be given to one just recovering from an illness is chopped .beef. Just take a pound of the finest round of raw beef, cut off all the fat, slice two onions, and jiepper and salt, i Then chop the onions and meat to gCUld", llll'lllUg I IIL'III liver illiu wvci until bnili are reduced almost to a pulp. Then spread on slices of rye bread and cat as sandwich. People talk about celery being a nervine, nut let mo tell you that there is nothing which <|uiets the nerves without bad results like onions. The use of them induces sleep and much strength is obtained from them. That is the ideal food for convalescing or for any one who is in a weak state of health. I j There are men formed with feelings so blunt that Ihey can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course jof their lives. Johnny's Complaint Onr preacher says?an' courso he's rightIt's very wrong to tell a fib, (So mother's taught me ever since She rocked me In my little crib), That's why I can't just understand J Why In his sermons he will run Along like sixty when he's said, "Hut one word more and I have done." When first 1 heard him say those words They made me glad, for f, you see, Was tired, tor half-hour sermons seem Enough for little folks like me ; But gracious ! I was quite surprised To find he'd only Just begun, When pausing for a breath, he said, "Hut one word more and 1 have done." I wonder what he'd think if I Should say, when ut hie home I'd sup, 'Just one plum more and I have done,'' Then eat his wife's preserves all up? I guess he'd ask me what I meant, I'd have to say I was in lun, Just like he must be when be says, "Buttine word more and I have done." Typos oC OladiiCMN. There are, indeed, types of gladuess that cannot be reproduced after a first heavy sorrow. We can never again look upon the world with the same eyes. There are void places iu our earthly loves that muse remain void while we stay here. lJut there is a profounder love for those who stay with us, a gentleness, tenderness, sweetness of affection, unknown before. Our love gains by loss, grows by amputation. Above all, there is a more vivid sense of heaveenly realities, a consciousness of unbroken union with those that seem divided from us, an intimacy with higher fellowships opened for us by those who have gone from us, a more clinging sense of dependence on the Infinite Love, and hence a joy purer and loftier, though its pristine buoyancy be forever lost. Especially as life wanes, and the shadows lengthen, may the treasures laid up in heaven give us a familiar, homelike feeling, as to the mansion where thoy shall be ours again, and the verv hopes whose failure cast a cloud over earlier years may thus shed over our declining days a genial light, that shall grow brighter and brighter till it is merged in the pure radiance of heaven. Ten Good Tilings to Know. 1. That milk which is turned or changed may be sweetened and rendered fit for use again by stirring in a little soda. 2. That salt will curdle new milk ; hence, in preparing milk porridge, gravies, etc., the salt should not be added until the dish is prepared. 3. That fresh meat, after beginning to sour, will sweeten if placed out of doors in the cool of night. 4. That clear boiling water will remove tea stains and many fruit stains. Pour the water through the stain, and thus prevent its spreading over the fabric. 5. That ripe tomatoes will remove ink and other stains from white cloth ; also from the hands. fi. That a tablespoonful of turpenHua hru'loil wifh whitfi Hnthps will aid in the whitening process. 7. That boiled starch is much improved by the addition of a little sperm salt, or gum arabic dissolved. 8. That beeswax and salt will make rusty flat-irons as clean and smooth as glass. Tie a lump of wax in a rag and keep it for that purpose. When the irons are hot, rub them first with the wax-rag, then scour with a paper or cloth sprinkled with salt. 9. That blue ointment and kerosene mixed in equal proportions and applied to the bedsteads is an unfailing bedbug remedy, as a coat of whitewash is for the walls of a log house. ]0. That kerosene will soften hoots and shoes that have been hardened by water, and render them as pliable as new. ? I.ost that Is Gain. Lost time may be time gained. Profitableness may be secured from the results of wasted hours. Timethrifty workers, who find themselves to have been on a fool's errand, are very apt to grieve over the waste, as they consider it, of so many precious hours. The scholar who follows out a difficult clew to the end only to find it. unproductive; the business man who throws all his thought and strength into a new venture, and finds it unremuneraUve; the pastor who has painfully elal?orated a line of thought which he in the end discovers to be specious or unprofitable; the visitor who journeys far and, after thorough search, fails to come across the person he is anxious to see,?is likely j to lose Heart, ami is incuneu to eniuei himself for such a profitless waste ofj time. Yet, if the disappointed seeker I will look out for th& gains to himself of his fool's errand, he will find that that experience which cannot he made to pay its erst is a rare one. If he would he wise, he will take into account all these incidental insights by the way, which in the future, by germinating new ideas, and by suggestions that arise from them, mav more than counterbalance the direct loss of the present. His activity, though profitless as to immediate results, may have! proved a good drill in methods." Practice and skill in the use of method are often of more consequence to us than success itself. Moreover, lie will have in mi 11 a mat n uis errauu ueuumen it j painfully impressed warning to him, it' may save him many similar experiences in the future, and thus bring real, actual gain to him. Disappoint-! mentor failure is, in various ways, one I of our most useful soul educators, j Penitence, patience, resignation, humility, and many others things, come] not except through much tribulation. So, iu reckoning up the profit and loss | of a so-called fool's errand, let us not I fail to remember that the yams of; wisely improved failure may beamoiigj our most profitable possessions. God Willing.?The Egyptians have a legend about the ostrich, as follows :| Tts race had once hcen beautiful, its' wings broad and strong. Then, one, evening the largest forest bird said to j it, "Brother, shall we lly to-morrow, fiml willinir to 1 be* river and drink?" i And the ostrich answered, "Yes ij will." At dawn they flew away, first i up towards the sun, higher and higher, the ostrich far before the others. It flew on in iis pride up towards the light; it relied on ils own strength, not upon the giver of that strength: it did not say, "God willing." Then the avenging angel drew aside the veil from the streaming flames, and in that moment the bird's wings were burnt,! and he sank in wretchedness to the earth. Neither he nor his species werej afterwards able to raise themselves up in the air. They fly timidly?hurry along in a narrow space: they are a warning in all our thoughts and all our enterprises to say, "Uod willing#" i Seeds that Will Grow. Twenty-five years ago, when I was a very little girl, father sent me into the cornfield one morning to drop pumpkin seeds. "A seed in every other bill in every other row," was the injunction called after me as I crossed the chip-yard, seed-box and dipper in hand, on my way to the cornfield. At first, my task seemed nothing but play. The corn had already been planted ; and the fiat hoc-mark on the top of each hill plainly marked where T was to crowd the pumpkin seeds into the mellow earth. Row after row I followed up and'down the field, skipping one, planting one; but still the hox of seeds did not become empty. "Drop the field as far as (he seeds will go," was another command I had received; and many a longing look di<l 1 cast at the cool farm-house in the distance and then at the contents of that box, as the forenoon wore away, and the sun prow hot. Ten time9 had I replenished my little tiu dipper from the seed-box, a wooden box in which window glass had been packed, narrow and deep, so deep it did not seem to have any bottom, so [ shook up the pumpkin seeds again and again, to see if they were not almost gone. FourteeR more rows, seven of them to be planted, and the opposite limit of the cornfield would be reached, and every reason to believe that the seeds would last till the whole lield was planted. "Father didn't expect me to drop so many. I heard him tell mother lie should plant half the field with pumpkins and half with beans. I really don't believe he wants me to drop these last seven rows," T argued with myself, "[am so warm and tired, I believe I will go home." And, keeping a sharp lookout on the porch door that openeil toward the lield, and giving a guilty glance arouud the prem lses, 10 De sure tnai 110 one was naming, I kicked a deep hole in the mellow soil with ray bare feet, and poured into it the remaining seeds in the box, packing dirt over them firmly and deep. "If father questions me, I can tell him I dropped them all; and those in the hole will never show their heads again above ground, I am positive, they are buried so deeply," I thought, as I retraced my steps toward the kitchen threshold. Father was sick witli a slow fever ; and, calling me to his bedside as I came in, he minutely questioned me as to how the "seeds held out." With guilty, downcast eyes, I told him I had planted the entire field as he directed, excepting the last seven rows. "And you dropped all the seed?" he asked, his wan face looking up from the white pillows. a "Yes," I answered in a low tone, nci men moved 10 uie wiuuuw. "Because," he continued, "Neighbor Burns wanted a few seeds lately, if we had any to spare. I thought surely there would be a pint or more left. Tell John to plant beans in every hill | of the rows that contain no pumpkin seeds." "If I had only known he intended having beans planted in one row and pumpkins in the next, I never would have buried those seeds," I thought, standing there conscience smitten. Rut to me there then seemed no help I for what I had done. Each day for two w??eks I secretly | vtsited that grave of pumpkin seeds iii the centre of the cornfield, to be sure there was no cracking of the earth to let greeu germs through into the sonlight; but I found no sign that there was life beneath. Then I relaxed my [ vigilance, and in a few weeks had forgotten,?not my sin, but the possibility of the seeds sprouting. The last of July father was able to creep over his fields Ij'ing near the house, by the help of his cane. In oneof his walks, I joined him ; and together we passed through the cornfield, the hills now waving with corn <1 in liniirlii- nnd nnmnkin vines just branching over Ac ground between the rows. Our footsteps were suddenly arrested by a perfect tangle of vines, whose matted network covered a large circular spot visible in the corn. "Why, why! how is this?" exclaimed father, stooping to critically examine the ground. "Here are vines by the score, dwarfed because they j were so thickly planted, but pumpkin vines, surely." My heart gave a great thump, as the truth flashed across my mind. This was the very spot where I had hidden those seeds; and, owing to the depth of soil that covered them, they had germinated slowly, but had struggled into the light at last to condemn me. I dared not speak; and father remained silent, poking his cane in the ground among the vines until be had unearthed a heap of swollen seeds, some decaying, but more with coiling, long, pale sprouts creeping from their shells, and others with well-developed cotyledonous leaves. At last, he looked up, and, keenly scanning my crimson, conscious face, said. "Daughter Heleu, is this your work?" There was such a ring of love and grief in his toues I was conqu ered at once ; and, throwing myself at his feet I sobbed forth the whole story. Father did not scold. He said my own remorseful thoughts and loss of self-respect were punishment enough ; but, going home, he told me, in his impressive, beautiful way, that bad habits and bad motives in life may be hid. like seeds under the ground, from the eyes of the world for a time, but sooner or later their rank growth will push their way through any cloak of hypocrisy that had been carefully drawn over them. When I see young people indulging in intemperate habits of any kind, secretly favoring the society of immoral, unprincipled associates, though their own conduct before the world may seem irreproachable, I think of the nest of bloated, sprouting pumpkin seeds that would not remain out of sight, and how, like them, the living . / i - i n 1., I l^Kiio will germs or unu uiuu^uisiiim ..... very soon crop above ground in the fairest life?Seed Time and Harvest. Glycerins kor Edged Tools.? Carpenters and other tool users who keep up with the times arc no\V using a mixture of glycerine instead of oil for sharpening their edged tools. Oil, as is well known, thickens and smears the stone. The glycerine may be mixed with spirits in greater or less proportion, according as the tools to he sharpened are fine or coarse. For the average blade two parls of glycerine to one of spirits will suffice. What Others Say. Dr. Alexander Raleigh. AGAINST gELK-PLEASINO.?CllliHtian people ought to be constantly and watchfully on their guard against this thing. There is absolutely no one whom it will not beset. The vivacious will have it presented to them in forms of excitement and amusement, the modest and retiring in forms of sloth and ease, the busy in forms of avarice and ambition, and fame aud honor; in fact, all the faults aud all the vices are but different dresses which that protean character, the old self, puts oil, as it goes up aud down the world, - v murmuring, "We ought to please ourselves. We ought to please ourselves." Beware ! brother, sister, young disciple, old disciple ; Timothy, Paul the aged, or even grandmother of Timothy?beware ! lest unwittingly ye fall into that * ~ l soft and easy, and yet?if truth must be spoken?nell-born habit of pleasing . "J unlf I'lnaco tlin conQtltilifioa nf t.hft Christian life, and then not you alone, but angels and God himself will be pleased." But as to pleasing that other self?that second you?that meaner creature than you sometimes find yourself lusping into?all danger and all soul-death lie that way. Let that man be crucified. Put fresh nails into his hands and feet. Pierce that cold, black heart with the soldier's spear. The dear Christ died in his love and purity that that dark man of sin might die forever. Nashville Christian Advocate. The New Orleans Timca-Democrat alluding to the Mardi-Gras festivities, says: "The carnival always interrupts. more or less, the serious work we have on hand. Our energies for . ! three or four days are concentrated on i the .amusements and enjoyments of this holiday season, and other interests i suffer temporarily. It Iihh been so thif year as formerly." Exactly. . "Always interrupts" not only the serious work, but we dare say operates a total suspension of business. We do not know what New Orleans would do, but in Boston, if a minister of the gospel at temps to read the Bible and instruct a few souls gathered about him on the commons, he would be arrested and punished. There is, however, a vast difference between Boston, Mass.. and New Orleans, La. Still, we are surprised that a great commercial emporium, competing with other cities for trade, should suffer the carnival always to interrupt its serious work for three or four days in every year. This is bad, to say nothing of the direct expenditure of money in large sums, which is worse than thrown away. J. S. Bryan in Wesleyan Christian Advocate. With some persons marriage is a failure because they are failures as husbands and wives. The fault is not in the institution itself, but in them, With some person.-, the Sabbath is a . failure; the church is a failure; the decalogue is a failure; Christianity is a failure; civil government is a failure. It is always well to know the character of the opponents of existing social customs and institutions. In law, the r?lmrn^tor f\f o wifnnco af?W>+a hid fAdfi. mony. There is a class who oppose everything that restrains lust or license. Christian Witness, "The minister who makes free use in the pulpit of such words as 'environment,' 'evolution,' 'subjective, and 'objective,' puzzles some of his hearers, and they wonder what he is driving at. One hearer in describing a sermon said, 'The more he unfolded it the more he covered it up.' Oh, for plain, well-understood words in preaching the Gospel!" Western Christian Advocate. That Methodist who, in the preseuce of his family, made it a custom to criticise all ministers and Christians, is now wondering why his childreu refuse to go to cnurch, or to have any thing to do with it. Hut why should they eare for it if it is such a thing as he has represented ? rsashville Christian Advocatc. The pastor Who goes from house to house during the week knows what to say to the full house that greets him on Sunday. The one who lounges away his time at home lires blank eartridges at nothing in particular. A Lesson of Gratitude. A gentleman once making Inquiries in llussia about the method of catchin*; bears in that country, he was told that to entrap them, a pit was dug sev eral leet deep, ana alter covering it over with turf, leaves, etc., some food was placed 011 the top. The bear, if tempted by the bait, easily fell into the snare. "But," he added, "if four or five happen to get in together, they will all get out again." "How is that?" asked the gentleman. "They form a sort of ladder by stepping 011 each other's shoulders, and thus make their escape." 'But how does the bottom one get out?" "Ah ! these bears, though not possessing a mind and soul such as God has given us, yet can feci gratitude; and they won't forget the one who had been the chief means of procuring their liberty. Scampering oft', they fi.tf.1i Mm lirnnr?li of ;i tree, which thev let down to their poor brother enabling him to speedily join them in the freedom in which they rejoice." Sensible bears, we would say, are better than some people that we hear about, who never help anybody but themselves. Not Woktii a Sacrifice.?"People buy everything except books," said the author of Queen Money." "They draw the line at that extravagance. Say a book costs $1, $1.50, $o?nobody can atlord such an outlay. They will wait six months to get'a soiled copy from a library?will humiliate themselves to the last degree to borrow it? meanwhile, willjspend $10, $20, $30, $4<>, $100 and $500 for greenhouse plants, or cut flowers; they will pur chase trumpery dishes for tables "and walls? adoru their own persons with dead birds, feathers, bits of tinsel, glass ; they will eat, drink aud bo merry ; take pains to gratify to the fullest every sordid and sensual inclination they feel, but books!?books are out of the question. Books, representing, as they do, not the material out the indestructible essence of human life and art, are not worth making a sacrifice for."? The Argonaut. It is mind, soul and heart?not taste or art?that make men great, ?