THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
VOL. V. NO. 19.
THU
Charlotte Messenger
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of a newspaper to advocate the rights and
defend the inter, sts of the Negro-American,
esjiecially in the Piedmont section of the
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Address,
W. C. SMITH Charlotte NC
Little Dave Keller, aged seven, of
Marshall, 111., has been sent to the insane
asylum. Dave was a very bright boy,
and made such wonderful progress in his
studies that his parents and teachers de
cided to push him forward. He was al
lowed no time for play or exercise, but
was kept at his books. At last his eyes
glared with a meaningless stare, his
tongue bubbled idiotic nonsense, and his
overtasked brain was wrecked.
One may get an idea of the careless
ness preva Hug among people by consid
ering the figures of the Dead Letter Of
fice if Washington. During the past
yearjjearly six million and a quarter let
terspnd packages were received there,
either wrongly addressed or unclaimed.
\ * This is at the rate of over seventeen
for every day in the year. The
j amount of money contained in them was
over SIO,OOO, and the checks and drafts
|k looted up $1,333,000.
The late Professor Proctor was a lit-
K erary Poo Bah. In his journal, Knmrl-
H edge, hO|Used to appear in half a dozen
p different roles at the same time. As
f “Editor” and “if. A. Proctor * he wrote
on mathematics and astronomy; as “Ed
ward Clodd” he u scussed dreams; as
“Thomas Foster” he criticised and car
ried to its logical conclusion Dickens’s
unfinished story, “Edwin Drood,” and
as an anonymous writer he criticised his
own criticism.
New York philanthropists arc turning
their attention to the alleviation of the
shop gills’ sufferings. There is also an
effort to make the factory girl more in
dependent and to this end large sums of
money have been raised with a view’ to
establishing schools for instruction in
the different branches of mechanical
labor. It is claimed that if girls and
young women are taught a good trade
early in life they can be placed where
they can make an honorable livelihood
independent of brutal emplojeri and
factory-owners.
We are not the only people, according
to the New York Graphic* who arc hav
ing troubicon account of Chinese immi
gration. In one of the Russian pro
vinces, just north of the Amoor Liver,
the Mongolians within the last two
years have swarmed into the country.
There as clsewheic they have driven out
til other Iborers, and they have so
thoroughly monopolized certain branches
of trade that the Governor-General has
i tppealed to the Imperial Government at
St. Petersburg to protect the 'people of
the province from being driven from
their homes to seek a living in other
lections of the country.
Capital in Europe is wondeifully
plenty for almost everything, and its
owners have a childlike confidence in al
most anything labelled American. Henry
Villard, of the Northern Pacific Rail
road, recently wanted tome money. He I
opened books in Berlin (or subscription
to third mortgage bonds, naming the price
and amount for sale, which was $4,000,-
000. To his surprise when the books
were opened the subscription amounted
to forty-e’ght millions, or twelve times
the amount that had l>cen sought. There
is a great deal of wealth in all old coun
tries hidden in out-of-the-way places.
When France had to pay Germany the
cost of the war it was found that the
French people had ihe money for the
purpose. Mill later they hare great con
j fidenee in the Panams Canal enterprise,
p raising loan after loan for it, when no
, American financier could trust anything
|l he valued on the success of the enter
i Wise. ......
WOMEN WITH MUSTACHES.
BEAUTY THAT 18 MARRED BY
HIRSUTE BLEMISH Ed
_L_
Removing the Superfluous Hairs
with an Electric Battery—ln an
Operating Chair.
As a Chicago Herald reporter sat in a
cable car the other day he noticed a
pretty woman enter. Pretty, stylish and
trim from head to foot—only one blem
ish, and that a decided, an humiliating
one. Sue had a pronounced mustacho
that a youth of twenty would have en
vied her. Everywhere that one goes, in
shops, churches, theatres, this disfigure
ment is noticed. Is there no remedy l
Sensitive women will resort to any and
every method to rid themselves of super
fluous hair. Scis-ors, tweezers, yes, even
razors are used, only to find that the
blemish will return ns fast ns it is re
moved, and with additional strength.
There are many fortunate cases. A
young woman had a few straggling hairs
on her face, t he noticed them much more
than any one else, and grew actually
morbid on the subject. One day while
having her hair shampooed her hair
dresser noticed them and to d her he
could remove them. He produced a I
small stone and by her permission pro
ceeded to rub them off, leaving her lace
smooth and blushing from the friction.
He assured her that if they returned
they would be much finer, scarcely to tie
•observed. Instead, in a few days they
appeared, and to her horror she found
they were very much worse than before.
In her despair she again used the stone
which her hairdresser had persuaded her
to buy. This practice she kept up daily,
until her face was in a frightful con
dition. However, at last she found a
remedy at the hands of a certain well
known lady physician, who guarantees
to permanently remove this blemish by
electricity.
“It is the only way on ea th to effect
ually kill this parasite,” said the latter
to the Herald reporter. “Any physician
of repute will assure you of thut fact.
Singeing, cutting, pulling out by tweez
ers or depilutories only make them
coarser, rougher and more bristling. The
follicle must lie killed, theu the hair falls
out of itself.”
“Do you have many patients?”
“I am Dusy every minute,” she sad.
“You would be surprised to see How
common an application it is. The
reason, too, is unknown. It seems
to be a modern disea-e. Physicians can
not quite understand it. I have actresses,
society ladies and women of humble
walks ot life come to me. They are
willing to pay almost anything to be rid
of this constant mortification. The hus
bands, too, are quite as anxious. 'I hey
tell their wives to get it done no matt r
what it costs. I have just finished a
very delicate piece of work on the arms
and hands of u we 1-koown society lady.
She had hairs down even on her fingers
and now they arc as smooth as velvet.”
“Does it ever return
“Sometimes a few of the hairs come
back, but they are always black and ex
tremely easy to kill a second time, and I
always remove them lree of charge when
they return.”
“Is it a painful operation?”
“Well, sometimes. That depends a
good deal upon the sensitivenes* of the
skin, and the nerve* of the patient. I
find, though,” she added, launh nglv,
“that even when it hurts pietly bad,
the ladies will endure it bravely—in
fact, a women will suffer any pain if
thereby she is to be made better look
ing.**
“You’d be surprised, too,” she con
tinued, “if you knew how many miles a
woman will go for this work. I have a
young lady from Utah, another patient
from Kansas who is c< tning specially for
this purpose. Yes, I have had a v< ung
lady from Buffalo who was g«>>ng to be
married and came all that distance to
be beautified. A queer thing hap
pened when I first started in busi
ness three years ago, I had a
Satient from Milwaukee. Poor lady! rhe
ad shaved twice a day for three years
Well, it was a tedious task. Her beard
was just like a man’s. You cau fancy
the enormous amount of labor it was to
insert the needle in each follicle. Then,
too, her skin had become so tender that
it was almost impossible to work upon
it. However, we persevered, and she is
now entirely free from the blemish, and
very happy over it, too. Moles, too—so
many wish them taken out. Then, too,
you perhaps will be surprised to know I
have some gentlemen, i ast week I had
one whose eyebrows met, and I cleared
that hairy bridge away for him. But, of
course, most of my patients are ladies,”
The Herald reporter then asked per
mission to be allowed to watch an opera
tion, which was granted. The patient
sits in a reclining chair and ho'ds a bowl
of water on her lap, in which is im
mersed one of the cords from the bat
tery. To the other is attached the finest
possible needle. The operator gathers
up the flesh about the obnoxious hair,
plunges the needle in deep, the patient
dips two or three fingers in the water,
•ays “Oh!” and waits. After a few
seconds the needle is removed and the
hair is deftly picked but by the tweezers.
The face is left a little sore from the
operation, but camphor freely applied
Will heal it.
A Wife Xordsrsr Hanged.
At Winnepeg, Manitoba, Webb Bran
don. the wife murderer, was hanged.
He displayed great fortitude on the scaf
fold. The parting between Brandon tind
his three children was affecting in the
extreme. Brandon killed hie wife while
drunk.
Hixteen Noldiers Killed.
A shell burst in a powder magazine at
Medina, on the island of Sicily, in the
Mediterranean Sea Friday morning,
| killing sixteen soldiers, and jnjuiing
| many others.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY, JAN. 5, 1889
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The cotton plant has been proposed as
a substitute for jute.
A torpedo boat for Spain is twenty
two meters long and can stay under
water two days.
The Southern Pacific Railroad pays
from $8 to $lO per ton for coal. The
concern is now experimenting with
petroleum.
From skeletons found in South Caro
lina it is certain that there used to be a
race of men in this count!y who stood
from eight to eleven feet high.
An English scientific man has pre
served a record of a family of many-toed
cats down to the tenth generation. Some
members of the family have as many as
sevea toes on each foot.
A New York oculist who traveled
about the city for a week on a tour of
observation encountered 200* I people
who were doing exactly what he would
recommend a person to do to destroy his
eyesight in a couple of years.
It is difficult sometimes to loosen a
rusty screw. If you cannot withdraw
such a one, heat an iron rod to a white
heat and hold it for two or three
minutes against the screwhcad, after
which the screw will come out with
facility.
A Maine genius has d scovered that
spruce sawdust is au excellent substitute
for sand in making common mortar for
plastering houses. lie has used it in
making a house in Greenville, and other
masons in the Stale are experimenting
with it.
The I ehigh Valley (Penn.) Railroad
now has twelve trains equipped with
telegraphic instruments for transmitting
messages along the road while the trains
are in motion. The system has been
used with partial'ar success by the
wrecking trains on the road.
The concensus of opinion now points
to the fact that the auditory organs of
insects are located in different insects in
different parts of the body, and, more
over, in the same animal, there is reason
to believe, that the sensitiveness to
sounds is not necessarily confined to one
part.
How and when an eel's eggs are
hatched has always been, and still is, a
mystery. All that is known definitely is
that the old eels run down to suit water
ia October, and that in the spring swarms
of youug ones, tho size of a darning
needle and about two inches long, as
cend the rivers.
Dr. Le la Rue has reached the conclu
sion, after numerous experiments, that
the most brilliant displays of the aurora
borealis occur at au elevation of not more
than thirty-eight miles, while a pale glow
may possibly be produced as high as
eigh«y-two miles, but that no auroral
discharge is possible at a height of 124
miles.
Not long ago a fireman remained half
au hour iu a dense smoke, protected by.
means of the I.oeb respirator and eye
p otccting and elastic-rimmed spectacles.
With this respirator on, the air can be
inhaled very easily, the exhalations pass
ing out through a valvular arrangement.
So successful has the appliance been that
the German navy has adopted it.
Dr. Eisenmann. of Berlin, has in
vented a piano which, by the aid of
electro magnetism, cau sustain, increase,
and diminish sound. This has been at
tempted by other experts, notably
Boefim. the inventor of the metal flute.
Another novelty will be that, by moving
the electro-magnets, the timber of the
tone is changed; for example, from that
of a violincello to piccolo.
A striking improvement in clocks was
exhibited and * described to the British
Association lor the Advancement of Sci
ence by Mr. W. JI. Douglass. The new
feature consists in the use of a torsion
peudulum which, with lever and escape
ment, may be appl ed to ordinary works,
and by its slow rate of vibration makes
it practicable to convert an eight-day
clock into one requ ring winding only
once a year.
On examining a block of ice which
foimed part of a Urge quantity stored
for more than twelve months at Moores
town, N. J., Professor Leidy found it
riddled with air bubbles and drops of
water. A portion of tho l lock was
melted, whereupon a number of worms
made their appearance, but died almost
immediately. The worms cannot be
identified with any known species, and
Professor Leidy believes them to be as
yet uodeicribed.
An Ink to Scribble Willi on Glass.
A correspondent writes in and wants
to know how to make an ink with which
he can scribble or draw on glass. There
are several methods. Av ry sure one is
to go to a store where inks are sold and
buy a bottle of fluid made for that pur
pose. The writing may be done by
applying to the suriace some appropriate
varnish, and one or two kinds appear to
have a special adaptation for this pur
pose. A good matt vurnish is made by
dissolving in two ounces of ether ninety
grammes of sandaiac and twenty of
mastic, adding one-half to one and one
half ounces of benzol, according to the
fineness of tho matt required,the varnish
being applied to the cold plate. After
it has set the glastna; he heated to
insure a line and even grain, and to ren
der the glass transparent a.ain after it
has been written upon it is ouly neces
sary to apply with a brush a solution of
sugar or gum acacia. Ava nish of sugar
is regarded as an even better surface lor
this purpose, and is easily n nde by dis
solving equal pirts of white and brown
sugar in water to a thin syrup, adding
alcohol and applying to hot glass plate-*.
The film dries very rupidlj v ;ui(i furni-hes
% surface on which it i* perfectly easy to
"write with pen or pencil The best results
are achieved by ‘he use of nd a ink, with
sugar added. —Detroi Fro* J*re*.
There ars over 200,000 lepers iq Brß*j
iih India*
HANDLING A GREAT CROP.
HOW THE GREAT NORTHWEST
ERN WHEAT YIELD IS MOVED-
A Process Which Requires the Em
ployment of an Army of Men
and Much Heavy Machinery.
The handling of the grain crops of the
Northwest is a process which employs
thousands of men, millions of Capital,
and vast plants of heavy machinery.
With the building of railroads and the
development of the country the mere
mechanical transferring of the grain from
the producer to the consumer has grown
to an enormous industry. The elevators
employed in Minnesota and Dakota num
ber about 1500, and have a combined
storage capacity of G0,0;)0,00l) bushels
according to the latest estimates availa
ble. Through them passes practically
all the wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley and
flaxseed raised in the Northwest.
Tho first n.odern grain elevator erected
in Kt. Paul was the one known us the
Davidson elevator, which stands on the
river front near the Milwaukee freight
houses, unused and dilapidated. That
was some twenty years ago. About the
same time what is now known at, eleva
tor C in Minneapolis was’erected. These
afe comparatively small institutions of
the kind, but a *er this start had been
made the elevator system gained rapidly,
until to day there is not an important
railroad station within the grain belt of
the Northwest that is not supplied with
one or more elevators or warehouses,
while at the terminal citics-Minneapolis,
Duluth and St. Paul—are enormous struc
tures capable of handling millions and
millions of bushels of grain in their com
bined capacity. The mion elevator in
East Minneapolis, owned by the Union
Elevator Company is said to be the
largest in the world, the elevator proper
audits annex having a combined storage
capacity of 2,500,0n0 bushels.
Now, to see how the enormous gram
crop of the Northwest is handled by the
modern elevator system—without which
it is evident it could not he haudled
safely and economically at all. The best
way to do this is to visit one of the great
elevators in the cities* All these are
operated upon the same principle, and in
any one of them will be louud sub
stantially all there is to be seen iu any of
the others.
It is a dusty place—the elevator—but
the dust is of a clean kind, having risen
from tho grain in process of transfer and
then settled back upon every board and
joist iu the building. Really, there is
not in' ch to see. One finds himself in
a perfect forest of beams' and wooden
spouts and hears the quiet hum of the
shaftings, which extend the entire
length ot the building and convey power
to the elevating machinery; but unless he
has an experienced guide to explain
things to him he will leave the institu
tion no wiser than when he entered it.
When the modus operaudi s unfolded,
however, it is found to be interesting.
So here is the way of it:
Several railway tracks extend through
the elevator from end so end, and the
trainloads of grain find entrance upon
these. Alongside the tracks are plat
forms rising to about the height of a
freight car floor,* and at intervals of a
car’s length in these platforms are open
ings* extending into hopper-shaped re
ceptacles beneath the platform. These
receptacles are called grain pits. When
a car loud of grain is received it is run in
upon the track until the doorway is flush
with the mouth of one of the hoppers.
Then the door is opened, and by means of
a wooden shovel, operated by machinery,
but aided also by men’s hands, the
grain is scooped into the hopper. It
does not take long, you notice, to clean
out a carload of wheat* In about ten
minutes from the time the car door is
thrown open the car is empty. Five or
six hundred bushels of grain have gone
into the pit. As fa9t as it has parsed
in, however, it has been taken out again,
carried to the top of the uuilding and
deposited in a bin. The machinery by
w’hich this operation is conducted con
sists of an endless belt, attached to
which are long, narrow tin scoops or
buckets. The belt, inclosed in a long
woodeu spout called a leg, extends down
into the p t and tho buckets catch up
the unloaded grain as they pass through
it. A belt in a high elevator will take
up fifty bushels of grain on one tr.p
over the pulleys.
The leg terminates at the top in a box
called the head of tho elevator, and as
each bucket passes over the pulley in
this box and starts on its downward
journey it deposits its contents into a
hopper leading into a large square box
constructed of scantl.ng aud withascale
standing before it. 1 his box, like all
other receptacles in the elevator, is hop
per-bottomed, and while ijt it the grain
is weighed and registration made of its
weight. It is then let out through a
spout into the bin for which it is des
tined. The entire main body of tho
elevator is divided into bins—receiving
bins and shipping bins. The receiving
bins are great squa e wells, tifty feet or
more deep, according to the height of
the building, and having a holding
capac ty of 3000 or 4000 to 12,000
bushels of grain. The shipping bins are
much smaller. The grain comes into
these by the carload, as it is shipped
out. In shipping the grain passes
through tile elevator a second time. It
goes from the receiving bins into the
pit, is taken up through the leg, tossed
over the elevator heaa into the scale
hopper, weighed, spouted into the ship
ping bins, and from the shipping bins it
is spouted into the cars. Thai’s the way
an elevator is run.
The cupola of the elevator—that part
which looks like a little house built
upon the top of the main building—is
above all the pins. One object in hav
ing a cupola is to gain height, so that
the spouts extended from the elevator
heads and scale hoopers mny be placed
at an angle which w|fl permit the grain
to flow freely into tuAins. Here, as on
the receiving floor, there is a perfect
forest of spouts, supporters and beams.
You will see in any elevator you visit a
machine for cleaning wheat and other
grains. This machine, by a process of
suction and lifting, takes out, all light
foreign substances, such ns grass seed,
wild buckwheat, bits of straw, blighted
wheat and other odds and ends that will
get into the wheat crop. The machiue
will not, however, take out cockle. That
is usually separated from the wheat after
it has reached the flour mill. Not all the
wheat that comes into an elevator at a
a terminal point is put through the clean-
J ing process, for some of it has already
i been cleaned in the country. A portion
of the refuse from the grain which does
go through the machine is used uuder
the elevator boilers for fuel, and there
are some elevators that do a great deal
of cleaning and mixing that collect
enough of this refuse to keep the fires
going without the ndditiou of othei fuel.
The seedy portion is usually sold for
chicken feed or for fattening sheep. It
brings from *3 to $lO a ton. Several of
the large elevators have what is called
an annex. This is merely a warehouse.
Where it is desirable to keep wheat in
store for a longtime it is cheaper to hold
it in the annex than in the bins of the
elevator proper. Besides it leaves the
elevator fice for current business. The
grain is usually spouted to the annex
from the elevator, and when the time
comes for shipment is spouted out again.
— St. Paul Pioneer-Preot.
Criminals Have Brains Like Animal*
It is interesting to know that at'tho
present time Professor Benediki, of
V ienna, is weighing, measuring and ac
cording the appearances of the brains of
criminals. In the Medical Congress held
in London in 1880 he exhibited the
brains of forty criminals, murderers and
others, and he has certainly persuaded
him>elf that the brain of a murderer inay
resemble that of a lower animal in cer
tain definite ways.
There seemed to him to be a strong
resemblance between the arrangement of
the convolutions in the brains of some
monkeys and that in the brains of some
criminals. He went even farther and
said that murderers’brains had a special
likene-s to those of bears. At the dis
cussion on this subject the general feel
ing was that these beings certainly had
laihcr poor brains, brains with large
and less developed convolutions, there
was no distinct relationship to be de
monstrated between them aud the lower
an mals.
Fatalities Attending a Ring.
The tenacity with which people still
cling to superstitious no. ions is illus
trated by a story from Madrid concern
ing the fatalities attending a ring. The
late King Alohonso ..II gave it to his
cou-in Mercedes when he was betrothed
to her, and she wore it during the whole
of her short married life. On her death
the King presented it to his grandmother,
the tauten Christina. .She died very soon
after, when it’passed to the King’s sis
ter, the Infanta del Pilar, who at once
began to sicken and in a few days
she breathed her last. Alphonso then
handed it to his sister-in-law Chris
tina, the youngest daughter of the Duke
of Montpcnsier; but in three monthsfhe
also was dead. His majesty now resolved
to retain the baleful ewel in his own
keeping; but he too soon fell a victim to
its mysterious malignancy. The ring has
now been suspended by a chain around
tho statue of the patron saint at Madrid.
j imen-D' mot rat.
We Are Japan's Best Customers.
Governor Hubbard, the United States
Minister at Tokio, tells me that we buy
inoie from Japan than any other foreign
nation. “East year.” said he, “our im
ports from this country amounted t021,-
uuOjOOO Japanese dollars, or about 10,-
000,GC0 American dollars. We bought
$11,000,000 worth of her raw silk and
nearly $7,000,000 worth of her teas. The
fair cheeks of our ladies were cooled last
year with $07,000 worth of Japanese
faus, and our noses were wiped with
SBIO,OOO worth of Japanese silk handker
chiefs. We buy nearly SBOO,OOO worth
of porcelain eveiy year, and our imports
of bamboo ware amount to $102,000 of
Japanese money. We buy more than
twice as much of Japan as any other
country, and our impoits are increasing
every year. In 1887 we bought a million
and a half more goods than in 1880, and
the l nited Mates will probably continue
to be Japan’s best customer.” —Neeo York
World.
Using Sugar 1o Make the Fire Go.
A great mystery in a certain house
hold in Boston has been solved. The
• head of the house, who bought sugar by
the barrel, often wondered “how in the
world the fuimly used as much sweeten
ing as they did,” and his wife, who was
not much given to going into the kitchen,
6a;d she guessed they didn’t use any
mote than other folks. But one day she
did go to the kiteken, and arrived just
in time to see the cook in the act of
throwing a scoopful of granulated white
sugar on the fire. Sugar is exceedingly
inflammable, and its application made
the tire flash up in fine shape. The girl
confessed that she had regularly used
sugar to quit ken the fire. “Sure,mum,”
she said, “we must hare the fire, an*
the coal burns that slow that me heart
is broke waitin’ upon it I”
The loss to the cotton crop from insects
is estimated at $!.'»,000,000 a year, while
that to the apple crop is not much loss,
and that to tho potato crop at least one
half as much. But the estimate is not a
fair one until into the loss is counted the
t me spent in fighting to secure the pro
portion that is saved.
Thesolamrc iu unripe potatoes is sup
posed to have caused the recent poispQ
ing of many French soldiers.
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RELIGIOUS READING;
Holy Night.
O Holy Night! whose blest approach
Now touches heart and home with joy,
Lilting from e <rth-ber old reprouch.
Dispel sing shades night would employ
To keep us still from seeking now
The Suir of Bethlehem’s pure ray,
That, falling soft on lifted brow.
But heralds a diviner day, —
Send thou thy peace, O Holy Night!
On sin-stained Eirth, on weary waste,
Till with Ihy glory all is bright,
Till to His shrine each step shall haste!
Semi Hght unto tho closed eye,
Send speech unto the scaled lip,
That from the first the cloud shall fly,
That for the second Truth shall dip
Her Gender fl lger, then, and touch
The tongue that Silent doth remain.
Thus giving from her store, how much
Is only counted by thy gain!
Send faith unto the wavering soul.
Send joy unto tbo bruised heart,
That Christmas in its blessed whole
Shall gather each resplendent part
Os. glory that this night doth yield,
And lay it at His feet divine
Whose sceptre heaven and earth now wieldl
And lo! o’er all the Star shall shine I
Good Books.
Ruskin has written many a good thing on
books and reading, but none better than the
following:
We talk of foo l for the mind as of food
for the body; now a good book contains such
food inexhaustibly; it is a provision for life,
and for tbe best part of us, yet how long
most people would look at the best book be
fore they woujd give the price of a fine din
ner for it! Though there have been men who
have bared their backs and pinched their
stomachs to buy a book, whose libraries
were cheaper to them, I think, in the end
than most men’s dinners arc. If public
libraries were as costly as public dinners, or
books cost tbe tenth part of what bracelets
do, even foolish men and women might
sometimes suspect there was good in read
ing, as well as in munching and sparkling;
whereas, the very cheapness of literature is
making people forget tint if a book is really
worth reading it is worth buying.
No took is worth anything wnich is not
worth much: nor is it serviceable until it has
been read and reread, and loved and loved
again, and marked, so that you can refer to
tbe passages you want in it, as a soldier can
seize the weapon he needs in on armory, or a
housewife bring the spice she needs from her
store. You must get into the habit, when
reaoing a real book, of looking intensely at
words, and assuring yourself of their mean
ing, syllable by syllable, letter by letter.
You might rend all the books in the largest
library in the world (if you could live long
enough) and remain an illiterate.uueducaten
person; hut if you read ten pages of a good
book with real accuracy, you are for
evermore, in some measure, an educated per
son.
“The Place Where Jesus’ Name Is.”
All the missionary reports dwell on the
wonderful results of women’s work among
the heathen. One of the most remarkable
comes from Madura, in tbe Indian Archi
pelago, and is published in the Missionary
Herald. It appears that a Biblewoman
gathered a little class of native women to
gether, and used to speak to them about
Jesus, reading to them, and explaining bis
life of love. One day a woman who had
bc>en a most attentive listener, interrupted
her with:
“Are all the things you read and tell us
about Jesus written in that book?”
“Yes, and much more than I have yet
tol l you.”
“1 want a book like it; will you bring me
one tomorrow r
“Yes, I will bring one, but of what use
will it be to you? You cannot read it.”
“But I must have the Book that tells
about Jrsus.”
The next day when the book was g ven to
her, she cl ispod it eagerly with both hands,
and touched it lovingly to her lips. Then
opening the book she s tid:
“Show me the place where Jesus’ name
is.”
“As soon as it had been pointed out to
her she kissed the sacred page reverently.
Before the Bible-woman loft the house the
happy owner of the Book asked that tbe
place might be marked so that she would al
ways find the name of Jesus.
Another woman, who has only been under
instruction a few months, has bceu mu?b
impressed with tbe thought that it is her
duty to go from house to house, like the
Bible - readers, teaching and telling
of tho love of Jesus. Sbe is very anxious
to read in the New Testament, and has per
suaded her husband to help her, so that she
may learn more rapidly. Not long since she
•came early in the morning, and entreated
the Bible-woman to go with her to a neigh
boring village to preach, saying, she wished
to begin to tell wlmt she had learned about
Jesus, but was afraid to teach in her own
village, where she was well-known, for the
people would laugh at her because she knew
so little. Surely God has blssed this branch
of tbe work in answer to many earnest
prayers.
g| . the Right Side.
“In a se|? . recently delivered in a Chi
cago pul( A preacher of many years’
experience, <d of extended olw rvation gave
the welofl") assurance to his lies rers that
the Chur<*|' militant is not fighting a losing
battle, ajpiough surface indications in the
great ciw&s msy seem to point to that con
clusion. A closer examination of the facta
in the case will bring to light a splendid
train of efforts and influences for the rid
l mighty host of quiet but reliable .nd
loyal soldiers of the cross—nono of wjich
and none of whom..are unusual or odd
enough to receive lisa in the pres*. Jrat £
countless agencies that makoVbr’Hgftteous
ness are little noticed, lut the agent who
proves false to his ti ust and rushes into the
service of the devil gets a too generous men- *
tion Ho the crimes and follies of mankind
are flashed over the wires nnd spread before |
our eyes every night and morning, while the f
regular onward march of the great Christian j
charities aim of evangelical movements is -
referred to with brevity and infrequently, \
if at all.
The Church at large is growing stronger
every year, the Gospel is being diffused ra
pi/ y among all peoples, tbe tone of Cbri*
ti d living is being ruised.and the dignity of
d rebipleahtp is coming into wider recognition.
These and many otbi r s<gns of the times,full
of encouragement and promise, were inter
preted to tbe j-coble by tbe eloquent divine,
and any timid, despairing, dint lustful souls
who beard him roust have enjoyed the ser
mon as a revelation.
Even those who have not entertained fears
as to tho progiess of the Church, and who
did not need this os urance to nil y anxiety,
will rejoice to know that an experienced
soldier in the warfare against si» has an
unshaken faith, not alone in final triumph
but in the regulnr and e'liifniious advances
of ihe Lord's armv of occup tion. The next
generation would find its condition much im
proved If the young men in the colleges
could tike in some of this whokw roe nnd
hop ful philosophy I” place of the |<c«j*imistic
stuff of the Hchnnenhnuer stamp with which
they nnd tbo collegians who just preceded
them have been too much enanc. red. iln
terior.
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