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VOLUME XVIIL ACCOM AC C H., YA. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 1893. NUMBER 11 Gr. WALTER MAPP, Attorney- at- La w ?AND? Notary Puruic Offices:?Accomac C. II and at home near Grungeville and Keller. U. Q. STURGIS, ? Attorney-at-Law;? Offices:?Ouaucock and Accoiuaek C. H. Will be at Court House Monday's and Wednesday's. Prompt attentiou to all business. JOHN S. PARSONS, Attorney-at-Law, Aecoiuae C. H., Va. Will practice in all courts of Acco mac and Northampton counties. T. P. QUIiSBY, A t toruey-at- Law Oflices?AecoiuacC.H.,and Onancock. Will be at Court House Wednesdays; and court days. Prompt atteutiou to all business. ,1. W. G. Blackstone, J. A. Buudick. HLACKSTON E & BUNPICK, Atrorueys-at-Law, Accoiuac 0. Ii., Va. Will practice in all the State courts. THOS. W. RUSSELL. Attorney-at-Lavr, Accomac C. H., Va. Practices in the courts ol'Accomac and Northampton counties. N. B. Wetcott. P. T. Gunter, Jr. WESCOTT & GUNTER, Attorneys-at-Law, Oflices?Accomac C. H., and at home of N. B. Yv'escott, near Mappsburg. Practice in all courts on the Eastern Shore of Virgiuia. L. FLOYD NOCK, Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public, Accomac C. H., Va. Will practice in all courts of Acco? mac and Northampton counties. Prompt attention to all business. JAMES H. FLETCHER, JRM Attorney-at-Law, ?Accoiuac C. H., Va.? Practices iu ail the courts of Acco? mac and Northampton counties. OTHO F. MEARs, a11 o rney-at-La w, Eastvilie, Northampton county, Va. Will practice in the courts of Aceo uiic and Northampton. STEWART K. POWELL, Attorney-at-Law, Will practice in all the courts of Accomac and Northampton counties. Office?Onancock, Va. Will be a*. Accomac C. H., every Wednesday aud court davs. DR. L. J. HA MAN SON, - DENTIST.? Onancock. Va. ritlce hours from ? a. :u., to ? p. m Dr.1 m>s. B. Lkatherbuky, DENTifT, - Onancock. Va.? _ ujce Lour* from 9 a. in., to 5 p. m. ___ ? Dentist.? Will be at Bloxom Tuesday and Wednesday and at Parksley Th?rs day aud Friday, of second week in each month for the practice of his profession. DR, S, B. WARD, DENTIST, -Belle Haven, Va. Bridge aud Crown work a specialty. Office of L. F. J. WILSON, Stockton Ave., Oreenbackville, Va. Notary Public, General Convey? ancer and Special Collector of Claims. Special attention paid to the Aujust nieut of Foreign and other Claims. Homestead Deeds and Deeds of Trust made a specialty. Correspondence solicited. ROY D. WHITE, ?County ?:o:? Surveyor,? and notary public; ?Parksley, Accomac County. Va.? Oilers his services to citizens of Ac comac and Northampton. Thoroughly equipped with latest aud best instruments. jas. w. brouwutox & son, Hallwood, Va., General Insurance Agents. Fire. Phoenix xlssurance Co., of London. Established 1762. Assets over tfS,000,000. Fire. Borne lusurance Co., of New York, Assets over ?y,000,000. Cash Capital jS:J,000,000. Provideut Savings Life, of New York All commuuicatious will receive our prompt attention. *"'T?l i*ra Birthday Presents, liaprat and ffeiiuiDi Rides, ?WATC1IES, CLOCKS,? JEWELRY & SILVERWARE. My prices cannot and will not be oi-ar.cn any w lie re. Eh -p^ctacles, I may honestly say I am the only one who can properly fit you on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. I &?? Hi?iyiift&?y Onancock, Va. [^Wooden and Willow Ware. ) Brooms.Brushes, Cordage, Match es, Axe Handles. Axle Grease. Bar rel Covers. Baskets,Blacking, Blank B .oks, Blueing. Bowls, Churns, Compasses, Brooiu Racks, Coru Poppers, Butter Pishes,&c,Caudle Wicks, Cheese Safes. Clothes Ham per,?Sri;.,Cocoa Dippers,Coffee Mills, Curry Combs, <?orks. Dusters, Fau? cets, Fish Hooks and Lines, Flour Sack-, Halters, Flasks, Gun Caps, Ice Cream Freezers, Horse Cards, Keelers, Ink, Kegs, Lump Burners, Pulleys, Lanterns, Lap Boards, [&e., Lemon Squeezers, Mats, Meas? ures, Marine Glasses, Mucihvge, Oakum, Oil Cans, Well Buckets, Tubs, &c. 119 South Street, Baltimore, Md. nris-Harts Point Transportation yo! On and after July 1st daily trips will he made to Chinco teague from Bloomtown Station. Hacks will leave station about 1 p. m. daily, connecting' with Steamer Winnie at Wisharts Point, arriving at Chincoteague about 3} p. m., returning to Wisharts Point about G o'clock. Steamer Winnie will also leave Wisharts Point for Chinco? teague daily at 7 a. m., leaving] Chincoteague at 91 a.m. Fare each way 75 cents. Extra charge for baggage. S. W. MATTHEWS, President. F. A. Davis & Go., Wholesale Dealers in TOBACCO M FINE CIGARS, N E cor. Howard & German Sts Baltimore, Md. Represented by . FRA]N'K W. BYRD. BUGKSTO 5? f? SB .Bra A; co ma ck C. II. Va., DRUGGISTS A full line of FANCY ARTICLES, DRUGS, OILS, PAINTS, SEEDS, &C, kepi on hand at lowest prices. (great lifialBS ??AT?-" J. ADELSTSIN, Onanccck, Va. Practical Watchmaker & Jeweler. I carry a large and select line of Watches, (."locks, Jewelry, Spectacles and Silverware of all kinds?prices reduced very low. Special attention paid to repair work on fine Watches, Clocks, Spectacles and Jewelry at bed? rock prices. All work guaran? teed to be first-class. Highest) prices paid for old gold and sil? ver. Will be at Accomac C. H., every court-day for repairing. A dollar saved is a dollar made, if so. write to the I 1UM .Laurel, Del., Davis & Bro., Proprietors. For prices on Headand Foot Stones, Monument, Iron Railing and all cemetery work in gen? eral, and save money. DAVIS & BRO., Laurel, Del. Agents?W. H. Pruitt, Temperance yille; E. J. WlNDKR, Onancock; i4ko. w. Abdkj.l. Belle Haven. Bird & Drummosd, Grangeville. T. B.WIRE&A?K&SON, WHOLESALE 129 ARCH STREET, Philadelphia, Pa. Represented by? R, FUlTON POWELL, Stockton, Md i^-Carriages and other vehicles also bought in car load lots by the undersigned and sold at the lowest margin of profit. R. F. POWELL. KELLY & NOTTINGHAM, We represent Fire Insurance Companies that pay losses in the event ol' fire. No reliable Insurance Agency can write your insurance at a lower rate than we can make you. It wilfbe a matter of economy, on your part, to consult us before placing your insurance. , We have ample facilities for handling all your insurance, no matter how small, or how large the amount may be. We guard your interest as care? fully as we guard that of our own; knowing we must do this in order to secure and hold I your patronage. With us you are absolutely sale for the reason that all 0111 records are so completely syste matised that we cannot overlook a risk, and thereby fail to notify our patrons of expirations. ?WITH US YOU ARE SAFE -BEYOND QUESTION Write to Kelly A: Kottlngliaui. Cull to see Kelly <t Nottingham. Talk with Kelly & Nottingham. We have a telephone right in ou? Oftice. ONANCOCK, VA. ? DEALERS IN ? All Kinds of Bnildinc Material, doors., sash, window blinds, laths, shingles, bricks, cement, hair, lime, hardware, stoves, pumps, coal and stone well curbing. ?Agents For? Harrison Bros. & Go's Paints. YaluaDle Real Estate FOR S?LE At Private Contract I offer for sale by private con? tract, that valuable tract of land, situated near Belle Haven, Accomack County, and very near Exmore Station, known as "Mooreland," containing 650 acres, more of less, and bounded as follows: on the south west, by the lands of F. E. Kellam and the heirs of Custis M. Wil? lis, deceased; on the south east, by a branch of Machapungo Creek: on the north west, by the lands of Asa Sample; and on the north east, by the lands of John I Pitts' heirs and the road leading to Bell's Neck. The above tract of land will be sold as a whole or in parcels of not less than one third each, to suit the purchaser. The said tract is well timbered with both oak and pine, of great value, and with resources for manuring purposes almost unlimited. Terms easy and accomoda ting. L. FLOYD NOCK, Attorney for the owners, Accomack C. H., Va.5 May 24th, 189S. ?-European Plan ??? 18 to 28 east pratt street, Baltimore M d. aS'-Rooms?50,75 and ?1.00. Bar & Restaurant Attached."^ 0. A. FOWLER. Manager. Cemetery Notice. Persons in Accomac and adjoining counties wishing to inafk the grave of a relative or friend with a ?AgONUEMENT? TABLET, TOMB or HEADSTONE, in Marble or Polished Granite, can now do so at a very small outlay as we keep in stock a large collection of finished work of modern designs of the best workmanship and at the very lowest prices. 6 W. Fayette St., near Charles, 314 S. Charles St. near Camden. ?Amm? asinf mm$ Established Seventy-Five Years. EXTOL THE VIKTUES. (\ND COVER THE FAULTS, SAYS REV. DR. TALMAGE. ? A Great Sermon on the Art of Frlenddhip. The. Man That Hath Frlenda Munt Show Himself Friendly?Five ScrmouH Iu Ev? ery Healthy HundHhalcc. l'Copyrlght, 1SU8, by American Tress Asso? ciation.] I Washinuto.n, Sept. 11.?Tbo obtain? ing of good friends, which most look upon as a matter of happy accident, Dr. Tannage in this sermon shows to be a matter of intelligent selection; text, Proverbs xviii, 24, "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly." About the sacred aud divine art of making and keening friends I speak?a fcubjoct on which I never heard of any onu preaching?and yet God thought it of onongL importance to put it in tho middle of tho Biblo, these writings of Solomon, hounded on ono sido by tho popular psalms of David and on the other by tho writings of Isaiah, tho greatest of the prophets. It seems all a matter of haphazard how many friends wo have or whether wo have any friends at all, but thero is nothing accidental about it. Thero is a law which governs tho accretion and dispersion of friend? ships. They did not "just happen so" any more than tho tides just happen to riso or fall, or tho sun just happens to rise or set. It is a science, an art, a God given regulation. Tell mo how friendly you are to oth? ers, and I will toll you how friendly others are to yon. I do not say you will not havo enemies. Indeed, the best way to get ardent friends is to have ar? dent enemies if you get their enmity in doing tho right thing. Good men and women will always havo enemies, bo canso their goodness is a perpetual re? buke to evil, but this antagonism of foes will make more intense the love of your adhere nts. Your friends will gath? er closer around yuu because- of the at? tacks of yoar assailants. The more your enemies abuse you Iho better your coad? jutors will think of yon. UnJiiHt AKtiitiilt ill it ::i pi lea Friend*. Tho best friends wo have ever had ap? peared at some jinn tare when wo were especially hcniLaidcu. There have been times in my life when unjust assault multiplied my friends, us near as I could calculate, about SO a minute. You are bound to some people by many cords that neither time nor eternity can break, and I will warrant that many of thoso cords wore twisted by hands ma? levolent. Human nature was shipwreck? ed about 50 centuries ago, the captain of that craft, one Adam, and his first mato running tho famous cargo aground ou a snag in tho river Hiddekel, but thero was at least one good trait of hu? man nature that waded safely ashore from that shipwreck, and that is the disposition to take the part of thoso un? fairly dealt with. When it is thorough? ly demonstrated that somp one is being persecuted, although at tho start slan? derous tongues wero busy enough, de? fenders finally gather around as thick as honeyhoes on a trellis of bruised honeysuckle. If, when set upon by the furies, you can havo graco enough to keep your mouth shut aud preserve your equipoise, and let others fight your battles, you will find yourself after awhile with a whole cordon of allies. Had not tho world given to Christ on his arrival at Palestine a very cold shoulder, thero would not have beeu one-half as many angels chanting glory out of the hymn books of the sky, bound in black lids of midnight. Had it not been for the heavy and jagged aud tortuous cross, Christ would not have been the admirod and loved of more people than any being who ever touched foot on either tho eastern or westorn hemisphere. Instead, therefore, of giving np in despair be? cause you have enemies, rejoico in the fact that they rally for you the most helpful and euthnstiastic admirers. In other words, there is no virulence that can hinder my text from coming true, "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly." It is my ambition to project especial? ly upon the young a thought which may benignly shape their destiny for the here and the hereafter. Beforo yon show yourself friendly you must be friendly. I do not recommend a dram? atized geniality. Thero is such a thing as pretending to bo en rapport with oth ers when we aro their dire destructants aud talk against them and wish them calamity. Judas covered up his treach? ery by a resounding kiss, and caressos may be dcmoniacul. Better the mytho? logical Cerberus, tho three headed dog of hell, barking at us, than the wolf in sheep's clothing, its brindled hide covered up by deceptive wool and its deathful howl cadenced into an inno? cent bloating. Disraeli writes of Lord Manfred, who, after committing many outrages upon tho people, seemed sud? denly to become friendly and invited them to a banquet. After most of the courses of food had been served ho blew a horn, which was in those times a sig? nal for tho servants to bring on the des sort, but in this case it was tho signal for assassins to enter and slay the guests. His pretended friendliness was a cruel fraud, and there aro now people whose smile is a falsehood. Ono Must Be Friendly. Eefore you begin to show yourself friendly you munt be friendly. Get your heart right with God and man, and this grace will become easy. You may by your own resolution get your nature! into a semblance of this virtuo, but thej grace of God can sublimely lift you in? to it. Sailing on the river Thames two vessels rau aground. The owners of one got 100 horses and pulled on the grounded ship aud pulled it to pieces. The owners of the other grounded ves? sel waited till the tides came in, and easily floated tho ship out of all trou? ble. So we may pull and haul at our grounded human nature and try to get it into better condition, but there is nothing like the oceanic tides of God's, uplifting grace. If when under the Hash of the Holy Ghost we see onr own foibles and defects and depravities, we will be very lenient and very easy with others. We will look into their charac? ters for things commendatory and not damnatory. If you would rub your own eye a little more vigorously, you would find a mote in it, the extraction of which would keep you so busy yon would not have much time to shoulder your broadax and go forth to split up the beam in your neighbor's eye. In a Christian spirit keep on exploring the characters of those von meet, and I am I sure you will find something in them I fit for ? foundation of friendliness. f You in vi to me to como to your couu try seat and spend n few dnya Thank : you! I arrive about uoou of a beautiful summer day. What do you do? As soon ! as I arrive yon take mo out under tho shadow of the great elms. You tako mo ; down to the artificial lake, tho spotted . trout floating in and out among the I white pillars of tho pond lilies. You , take mo to tho stalls and kennels whero ; you keep your fine stock, and hero arc ' tho Durham cattle aud tho Gordon set tors, and the high stepping steeds, by pawing and neighing, tho only language they can speak, asking for harness or saddlo and a short turn down tho road. Thcu wo go back to the house, and you gut mo in the right light and show mo the Kousetts and tho B?rstadts on tho wall and take mo into the music room and show mo tho birdcages, the cana? ries in tho bay window answering tho robins in the tree tops. Thank you I I never enjoyed myself more in tho same leugth of tinio. Now, why do we not do so with tho characters of others, and show tho bloom and tho music and tho bright fountains? No. We say: "Como along, and let mo show you that man's character. Hero is a green scummed frog pond, and there's n filthy cellar, and I guess under that hedge there must bo a black snake. Como and lot us for au hour or two regale ourselves with tho nuisances." Extol tin) Virtues. Oh, my friends, bettor cover up tho faults and extol the virtues, and this habit once established of universal friendliness will become as easy as it is for a syringa to flood tho air with sweetness, as easy as it will bo further on in tho season for a quail to whistlo up from tho grass. When wo hear some? thing bad about somebody whom wo always supposed to bo good, tako out your lead pencil and say: "Let mo see! Before I accept that baleful story against that man's character I will tako off from it 25 per cent for the habit of ex? aggeration which belongs to the mau who first told tho story. Then I will tako off 25 per cent for tho additions which tho spirit of gossip in every com? munity has put upon the original story. Then I will take off 25 per cent from tho fact that tho man may have been put into circumstances of overpowering temptation. So I have taken off 75 per cent. But I have not heard his sido of the story at all, and for that reason I tako off the remaining 25 per cent. Ex cuso me, sir, I don't believe a word of it." But hero comes in a defective maxim, so often quoted, "Whero thero is so much smoke there must bo somo lire." Look at all the smoke for years around Jenner, tho introducer of vaccination, and tho smoke around Colnmhus, the discoverer, and tho smoke around Mar? tin Luther, and Savonarola, and Galilei, and Paul, aud John, aud tell me whero was tho firo. That is one of the satauic arts to mako smoko without fire. Slau dcr, like tho world, may be made out of nothing. If tho Christian, fair mind? ed, commousensical spirit iu regard to others predominated in the world, wo should have the millennium iu about six weeks, for would not that bo lamb aud lion, cow and leopard, lying down together? Nothing but tho grace of God can ever put us into such a habit of mind and heart as that. Tho tendency is in tho opposite direction. This is the way tho world talks: I put my nanio on the back of a man's note, aud I had to pay it, and I will never again put my name on the back of any man's noto. I gavo a beggar 10 cents, and five minutes after I saw hiin entering a liquor store to spend it. I will never again give a cent to a beggar. I helped that young man start in business, and, lo, after awhile ho came and opened a store al? most next door to me and stole my cus? tomers. I will never again help a young man to start in business. I trusted iu what my neighbor promised to do, and .he broke his word, and the psalmist was right beforo lie corrected himself, for "all men are liars." So men become suspicions and saturnine and selfish, and at every additional wrong doue them they put another layer on tho wall of their axclusiveuess and another bolt to the door that shuts them out from sympathy with the world. They get cheated out of $1,000, or misinter? preted, or disappointed, or betrayed, and higher goes the wall, and faster goes auother bolt, not realizing that wiiilo they lock others out they lock tbemsolves in, and snnio day they wako up to find themselves imprisoued in a dastardly habit. No friends to others, others are no friends to them. There's an island half way between England, Scotland and Ireland, called the Isle of Man, and the seas dash aguinst all sides of it, and I am told there is no more lovely place th.au that Isle of Man, but I wheu a man becomes insular in his dis-1 position and cuts himself off from the maiu land of the world's sympathies he is despicable, and all around him is an Atlantic ocean of selfishness. Behold ' that Isle of Maul Sermons la Healthy Hands. Now, supposing that you have, by a divine regeneration, got right toward God aud humanity, aud yon start out to practice my text. "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly." Fulfill this by all forms of appropriate salutation. Have you noticed that the bead is so poised that the easiest thing on earth is to give a nod of recognition? To swing the head from side to side, as when it is wagged in derisieu, is un? natural aud unpleasant; to throw it oauit, invites vertigo, but to drop the chin in greeting is accompanied vsith so little exertion that all day long and every day, you might practice it with? out the least semblance of fatigue. So also the structure of the band indicates handshaking; the knuckles not made so that the fingers can turn out, but so made that the fingers can turn in, as in clasping hands, aud the thumb divided from and set aloof from the fingers, so that while the fingers take your neigh? bor's hand on one side, tho thumb takes it on the other and pressed together, all tho faculties of the hand give emphasis to the salutation. Five sermons iu every healthy baud urge us to handshaking. Besides this, every clay when you start out, load yourself up with kind thoughts, kind words, kind expressions and kind gruotiugs. When a man or woman does well, tell him so, tell ber so. If you meet some one who is im? proved in health and it is demonstrated in girth and color, say, "How well you I look!" But if, on the other band, un-1 der tbe wear and tear of life he appears i I Dale and exhausted, do not introduce J sanitary subjects, or eay anytJiiug at all about physical condition. In tho case of improved health, yon iiave by your words given another impulse to- j ward tho robust and tho jocund, while in tho caso of tho failing health yon havo arrested the decline by your si? lence, by which ho concludes, "If I wero really so badly oil', ho would havo said something about it." Wo aro all, I especially thoso of a nervous tempera nienfc, susceptible to kind words and discouraging words. Form a conspiracy ; against us, and let ten men meet us at j certain points on our way over to busi- j uess and let each ono say, "How sick! you look!" though we should start out | well, after meeting the lirst and hear- j ing his depressing salute, we would be-! gin to examine our symptoms. After j meeting tho second gloomy accosting, wo would conclude wo did not feel rpiite as well as usual. After meeting the third, our sensations would be' dreadful and after meeting tho fourth, ' unless wo suspected a conspiracy, wo, would go home and go to bed, and tho j othor six pessimists would bo a useless surplus of discouragement. Urijjlitnesc Not Gloom. My dear sir, my dear madam, what do you mean by going about this world with disheartcuments? Is not the sup? ply of gloom and trouble and misfor? tune enough to meet the demand with? out your running a factory of pins and spikes? Why should you plant black and blue in the world when God so sel? dom plants them? Plenty of scarlet col ors, plenty of yellow, plenty of green, plenty of pink, but very seldom a plant black or blue. I never saw a black flow? er, and there's only here and thero a bluebell or a violet, but tho blue is fori tho most part reserved for tho sky, and [ wo have to look up to see that, and! when wo look up no color can do us harm. Why not plant along tho paths! of others the brightnesses instead of tho glooms? Do not prophesy misfortune. If you must bo a prophet at all, be an Ezckiel and not a Jeremiah. In ancient times prophets who foretold evil wero doing righr, for they wero divinely directed, but the prophets of evil in our time are generally false prophets. Some of our weathcrwiso peoplo prophesied wo would havo a summer of unparalleled heat. It has been a very comfortablo summer. Last fall all tho weather prophets agreed in saying wc should have a winter of extraordinary severity, blizzard on tho heels of blizzard. It was the mildest winter lever remember to have passed. Indeed, tho autumn and tho spring almost shoved winter out of the processiou. Real troubles havo no heralds running ahead of their somber chariots, and no ono has any authority in our time to announce their coming. Load yourself up with hope? ful words and deeds. Tho hymn onco sung in our churches is unfit to be sung, for it says: We should suspect sonio danger near Where wo possess delight. In other woids, manage to keep mis? erable all the time. The old song sung at tho pianos a quarter of a century ago was right, "Kind words can never die." Such kind words have their nests in kind hearts, and when they are hatched out and take wing they circle round in flights that never cease, and sportsman's gun cannot shoot them, and storms can? not ruffle their wings, aud when they ceaso flight in these lower skies of earth they sweep around amid tho high? er altitudes of heaven. At Baltimore I talked into a phonograph. The cyliu dot containing the words was sent on to Washington, and tho next day that cylinder from another phonographic in? strument, when turned, gave back to mo the very words I had uttered tho day before and with tho samo intona? tions. Scold into a phonograph, aud it will scold back. Pour mild words into a phonograph, and it will return the gentleness. Society and the world and the church are phonographs. Give them acerbity and rough treatment, and acer? bity and rough treatment you will get back. Give them practical friendliness, and they will give back practical friend? liness. A father asked his little daugh? ter, "Mary, why is it that everybody loves you?" She answered, "I don't know unless it is because I love every? body." "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly." Firnt Save 3Iy Friend. Wo waut something like that spirit of sacrilice for others which was seen in tho English channel, where in the storm a boat containing three men was upset, and all three were in the water struggling for their lives. A boat came to their relief, and a rope was thrown to one of them, and ho refused to tako it, saying: "First fling it to Tom. He is just read}- to go down. I can last some time longer." A man like that, be ho sailor or landsman, bo ho in up? per ranks of society or lower ranks, will always have plenty of friends. What is true mauward is true Godward. We must be the friends of God if we waut him to be our friend. We cannot treat Christ badly all our lives and expect him to treat us lovingly. I was read? ing of a sea tight in which Lord Nelson captured a French officer, and wheu tho French officer offered Lord Nelson his hand Nelsou replied, "First give me your sword and then givo me your hand." Surrender of our resistance to God must precede God's proffer of par? don to us. Repentance before forgive? ness. You must give up your rebellions sword before you can get a grasp of tho Divine hand. Oh, what a glorious state of things to havo the friendship of God! Why, we could afford to have all the world against us and all other worlds against us if we had God for us. He could in a minute blot out this universe, and iu another minute make a better universe. I have no idea that God tried hard when he made all things. Tho most brilliant thing known to us is light, and for the creation of that ho only used a word of command. As out of a flint a frontiersman strikes a spark, so out of one word God struck the noon? day sun. For the making of the present universe I do not read that God lifted so much as a finger. Tho Bible fre? quently speaks of God's hand and God's arm and God's shoulder and God's foot. Then suppose he should put hand and arm and shoulder and foot to utmost tension, what could he not make? That God of such demonstrated and undein onstrated strength you may have for your present and everlasting friend, not a stately and reticent friend, hard to get at, but as approachable as a coun? try mansion on a summer day, when 1 all the doors' and windows are wide open. Christ said, "I arn the door." And ho is a wide door, a high door, a palace door, an always open door. _ No Onu to Cry To. My 4-year-old child got hurt and did not cry until hours after, when her: mother cauio home, and then sho burst' into weeping, and some of tho domes- J tics, not understanding human nature, said to her, "Why did you not cry be? fore'/" She answered, "There was no ono to cry to." Now, I have to tell you that while human sympathy may bo ab? sent divino sympathy is always accessi? ble. Give God your lovo and get bis love, your service and secure his help, your reprntanco and have his pardon. God a friend: Why, that means all your wounds medicated, all your sor? rows soothed, and if some suddeu catas? trophe should hurl you out of earth it would only hurl you into heaven. If God is your friend, you cannot go out of the world too quickly or sudden? ly ho far as your own happiness is con? cerned. There were two Christians who entered heaven. The one was standing at a window in perfect health, watch? ing a shower, and tho lightning in? stantly slew him, but tho lightning did not flash down the sky as swiftly as his spirit flashed upward. Tho Christian man who died on tho same day next door had becu for a year or two failing in health, and for tho last threo mouths had suffered from a diseaso that made the nights sleepless and the days an anguish. Do you not really think that the case of the one who went instautly was more desirable than tho one who entered tho shining gate through a long lano of insomnia and congestion? In tho ono case it was like your standing wearily at a door, knocking and wait? ing and wondering if it will ever open, and knocking and waiting again, while in tho other caso it was a swinging open of tho door at tho first touch of i your knuckle. Give your friendship to God and have God's friendship for you, and even tho worst accident will be a victory. Vnlui* of Divine Friendship. How refreshing is human friendship, and truo friends, what priceless treas? ures! When sickness comes and trouble comes aud death comes, we send for our friends first of all, and their appearance in our doorway in any crisis is re-en? forcement, and when they have enter? ed, wo say, "Now it is all right!" Ob, what would we do without personal friends, business friends, family friends? But we want something mightier than human friendship in the great exigencies. When Jonathan Edwards, in his final hour, bad given the last goodby to all his earthly friends, he turned on his pillow autl closed his eyes, confidently saying, "Xow where is Jesus of Nazareth, my true and never failing Friend?" Yes, I admire human friendship as seen in the case of David aud Jonathan, of Paul and Onesipborus, of Herder and Goethe, of Goldsmith and Reynolds, of Beaumont and Fletch? er, of Crowley and Harvey, of Erasmus and Thomas More, of Lessing and Men? delssohn, of Lady Churchill and Prin? cess Anne, of Orestes and Pylades, each requesting that himself might take the point of the dagger, so the other might bo spared; of Epaminoudas and Pelopi das, who locked their shields in battle, determined to die together, but the grandest, the mightiest, the tenderest friendship in all the universe is the friendship between Jesus Christ and a believing soul. Yet, after all I have said, I feel I have only done what James Marshall, the miner, did iu 1S4S in California, before its gold mines were known. lie reached in and put upon the table of bis employer, Captain Suffer, a thimbleful of gold dust. "Where did you get that?" said bis em? ployer. Tue reply was, "I got it this morning from a mill race from which the water had been drawn off." But that gold dust, which could have been taken up between the finger aud the thumb, was the prophecy and specimen that revealed California's wealth to all nations. And today 1 have only put bo fore you a specimeu of the value of di? vine friendship, only a thimbleful of mines inexhaustible and infinite, though all time and all eternity go on with the exploration. A t>iij>!>y idea coat. A number of years ago an order pro? viding for a change in the full dress coat hurst like a bombshell upon the young officers of the United States steamship Alert, which was to sail within a week for a cruise down the coast. The commanding officer, who was a stickler for naval regulations, in? sisted that the order be obeyed before the vessel left Sau Francisco. A stay of several weeks bore had depleted the pockets of tho steerage officers, and the paymaster would not listen to au ad? vance. Seven men needed seven coats at a collective price of .?3329. A hasty "tarpaulin muster" resulted in a total of less than .$75. A happy thought struck a bright young ensign. Tho coats would be needed only when it was necessary to accompany the cap? tain ashore on official visits. And only one officer went at a time. Why not buy one coat aud havo it altered by the ship's tailor each time it was used? Al? though the largest man weighed almost 200 pounds aud tho smallest tipped the scales at 130 the suggestion was gladly adopted. It is said that when the Alert returned to San Francisco that full dress coat contained moro seams and stitches than a crazy quilt.?Los An? geles Times. The Lords lie Knew. The late Bishop William Iugraham Kip of San Francisco was very proud of his aristocratic family connection. He came from au old Dutch family, his ancestors having crossod the ocean from Hull before this country had made much history. Having considerable private means and not being dependent upon his diocesan salary, tho bishop made frequent trips to Europe, and upon his return from abroad he always commit? ted the indiscretion, not uncommon with European travelers, of talking a great deal about the noble persons ho had met. It was, "My friend Lord This" and "My relative Lord That," until even the bishop's admirers felt rather tired. One Episcopal layman, a bard headed business man, proud of his American birth and in love with his democratic ideas, was especially disgusted. "Tho bishop gives me a pain," be said frank? ly. "Besides, he isn't on to his job," he continued. "He seems to know all about every lord in creation except the Lord God Almighty."?New York Trib? une. MALAY PIRATES. fierce Moros From Borneo That Overran the Philippine Islands. Professor Dean 0. Worcester of the University of Michigan, contributes an article on "The Malay Pirates of the Philippines" to The Century. Professor Worcester says of the dreaded Moroa of tho southern Philippines: The Moros entered the Philippines from Borneo at about the time of the Spanish discovery. They first settled in Sulu and Basilan, but rapidly spread over tho numerous small islands of the Sulu and Tawi Tawi archipelagoes and eventually occupied the whole of the great island of Mindanao to the east aud Balabao and the southern third of Palawan to the west. Before their con? quest of Palawan was completed they had their first serious collision with Spanish troops aud havo not since been able to extend their territory, but what they had taken they have continued to hold. Hostilities between Moros and Span? iards were precipitated by an unprovok? ed attack by the latter upon one of the Moro chiefs of north Mindanao. The at? tacking forco was almost annihilated, and the fanatical passions of the Moros were aroused. They forthwith began to organize forays against the Spanish and native towns of the central and northern islands, and from the outset met with great success. Their piratical expedi? tions soon became annual events. With each recurring southeast monsoon hordes of them manned their war praus and sailed north, where they harried tho coasts until the change of monsoons warned them to return home. Thousands of captives were taken. Men were compelled to harvest their own crops for the benefit of their cap? tors and were then butchered in cold blood, while women and children wero carried away, the former to enrich the seraglios of Moro chiefs, tho latter to bo brought up as slaves. For 2)4. centuries this state of affairs continued. Emboldened by continued success, the Moros no longer confined their attention to the defenseless na? tives. Spanish planters and government officials were killed or held for ransom. But the delight of the grim Moslem warriors was to mako prisoners of tho Spanish priests and friars, toward whom they displayed the bitterest hatred. Is? lands which had once been prosperous were almost depopulated. Even foreign sailing vessels were attacked and cap? tured. The Spaniards did not tamely submit to this 6tate of affairs. Expedition after expedition was organized. Millions of dollars and thousands of lives were wasted. Temporary successes were gained, but they resulted in no perma? nent advantage. On several occasions landings wero made on Sulu itself, forts built and garrisons established, only to be driven from the island or massacred to a man. The steel weapons of the Moros were of the best, and for years they wero really better armed than the Spaniards, but with the improvement in firearms the Spaniards gained an advantage in which the Moros did not share. Such cannon and rifles as thoy possessed wero antiquated, and they had difficulty in getting ammunition, but it was not un? til the day of rapid fire guns and light draft steam gunboats that they wero finally confined to the southern waters of the archipelago. An efficient patrol of gunboats was established, and the Moro praus were forbidden to pu>t to sea without first ob? taining a written permit from the near? est Spanish governor. They wero also ordered to fly the Spanish flag. When a prau was eucountered that did not show the flag or was not provided with a pasaporte, it was rammed and cut in two or sunk by the fire of machine guns. No quarter was given. As opportunity offered, the gunboats shelled the Moro villages, which were built over the sea and so could bo easily reached. Sulu, which had always been the seat of government and the resi? dence of the reigning sultans, was de? stroyed in 1S76 and a Spanish military post established where it had been. At first the Moros had a disagreeable habit of dropping in from time to time and wiping out the garrison. It was con? stantly re-enforced er renewed, how? ever, so that from 187G to the present day the Spanish occupation at this point has been almost continuous. Definite. "About Nov. 1, 1861," said Commo? dore Kautz, "I called to see President Lincoln, with General Denver, in re? gard to my exchange, being at the timo a prisoner of war'on parole. A violent storm was prevailing at the time, aud as the wind whistled through the trees of the White House grounds and sheets of water dashed against the windows of the executive mansion our thoughts naturally turned toward the poor mar? iner, and especially to Flag Officer Du pont's fleet, which had sailed a day or two before. "General Denver rensarked that thero would be great anxiety on tho part of all of us as to the safety of the fleet un? til it was heard from, and added, 'I suppose, Mr. President, it is now so Hear its destination that you would not object to telling us whero it has, gone to?' Mr. Lincoln looked at the general a moment, as though he were loath to reveal the secret, and then said, 'No, general, since you and your young friend are especially interested in the navy, I don't mind telling you that?it has gone to sea.' "?Harper's. Marie Antoinette's Milliner. Another relic of old Paris that is on the eve of disappearance is the once fa? mous milliner's shop, "A la Belle Auglaise," in the Place St. Philippe du Roule, which was founded in 1765, and numbered among its patrons Marie An? toinette, Mine, de Lam balle, Mme. Re camier, Pauline Bonaparto and Eliza? beth Foster, duchess of Devonshire. Here also Chateaubriand was in tho habit of buying his cravats. The little old house was only one story high, but a quaintly picturesque building.?Lon? don Chronicle. I The Flow From Vesuvius. Lava streams that have flowed out of Vesuvius during the last three years have deposited 105,000,000 cubic me? ters of lava on the sides of the moun? tain A cone of lava 330 feet high has been formed, out of which fresh streams aro flowing. The valleys on either side of the observatory peak have been com. i pletely filled up.