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DO YOU ENDURE?
III.KSBEIl IS THE MAN THAT ENDl'HETIl
TEMPTATION; Hilt WHEN UK IS TIIIKI)
HE SHALL REI'EIVB TUB CROWN 01'
LIFE.
(Raleigh Christian Advocate. )
Hat, min i you, success in nil nutters
is largely s question of enduraiieo. Cud
you endure? Do you endure? That is
the q iesiion. No mm, no wotnan has
over vet wiin a prim, gained thu estoem
l oouli lonoe of business men, ol their
neighbors, who lack in essential to
(run uiauh od, womanhood endurance.
hat a big word it is. (jet your
dictionary ami look up its meaning. I
haven't lime to tell you all about it, tuy
sermon would be too loot; and you might
got sleepy. It.tt looking at the word
will be a pleas ml and profitable diversion
and keep you awake, "Messed is the
man that eudureili teiuplatiuu.' In
HS7 the writer was elated tax-lister fur
Chirlesl m t omnhin in Swain country
M inn ing my h use, wit'i book uudcr
arm, I w-oit to meet an appointment in
i lie county. At di ihht time. 1 was
invited by a hospitable lanucr to sit at
his table. Before g iiug in, two young
mi' ii appeared on the porch, and oue ul
bene, driving; a disk uf "oi'iuntain-dcw
aug'es'ed thil we lakes drink It was
i temptation. Ojly a I'e weeks before
I had asked 0 id to give, iu strength to
ver lake an . t ' 1 1 r. My conversion had
not d stroyed my app-iite, and a driuk
w .iiid Ii ly h ive tasted gul. Hot I
had i lit this business. Then after
preaching to the men respectfully, lov-
iugl), a little sermon, we weut into din
tier. Id lore honing Hie meal 1 was
shouting happy hut held in. Already
over the first temptation in the new life,
HITHERTO 1:NREC0HI)E1i EVENT OK
THE CIVIL WAR.
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"I was miled up in one little iliire
curded event of the cival war," said lien.
H , "that was interesting from its very
untisaulness, and which, as I look back
upon it, seems strangely picturesque. We
were attached to what wus known as the
Marine Brigades, a little fleet of twelve
"tin-clad" river steamboats that plied up
and down the Mississippi after the surren
der of Vicksburg The term 'liuclad;'
by the way, is somewhat tuislcadiug, as
it is not rem itely connected with the
metal, but signifies rather boats heavily
planked with oak for the purpose of pro
tecting them somewhat from the ravages
of bullets.
"Ouc day our little battalion of four
companies were ordered to steam down
the river disembark at Uodney, inarch
to Kurt Gibson, and there consult sealed
orders in regard to further proceedings.
routine our surprise upon reading the
instructions to find that we were expec
ted to cipturo and carry hack to Vicks
burg as prisoners fifty uf the most aristo
cratic Con federate vouug women in
the city. However, we had served long
enough to obey orders without question
and provided with guides familiar with
the town, we set about our bizarre utid
not Io a agreeable task. Wo first estab
Hilled headquarters at the residence of a
prominent Confederate judge
" Then different squards were sent out
to call at Hie Ii noes ol young women
and escort tbcm Io the place of rendu
vous the Instructions were that they
must rep irt at headquarters within twn
hours on penally ol their family ri si
denouee being horned to llie ground
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, . l r The only iuforuntiou we could uive llieui
in the earv summer returning home from ' h .
the day's w.irk iu my couuty's service,
they rested ou uie the j iy, the lautul
wreath uf victory, always falliu ou hiui
who at a oiitic.il moment iu life's battle
routs the enciuy. The tops of the sur
rounding mountains were all aglow with
the golden light from the sinking sun;
the little bir Is cooid be he ml saying
their eveuing praters of th inks to the
Makei; the iu uotaiiis hid broken forth
into slugiug aud Uu irees ot the neld
were claiiing their hands, asjthc wriier
went towards home conscious ofstreugth
that from that day until this, has never
deserted him. Home gave to lur sol
diers crowns of iliff runt clur icier
for worthy service; but Rouj uover
placed on the head of any 8 ddier a more
glorous or honored crewu than thai
hieh tfiid lmvcs to those of His soldiers
, . ..ii, was (hat before the hour was up the last
who eodure temptation. "Hles -d is the I
man that endurtlh lempation; for when
he is tried he shall reetiive the crown ol
lite, which the Lord hath promised to
them that love Him " Therefore, my
dearly beloved, wear your crown now. In
Heaven there will bd no temptations to
overcome, uut nere uie world is iuii oi
thetu. If my reiders, any of them, are
beset with temptation of whatsoever
hataeler, edure the same, dou't yield.
overcouie it, and wear your crowu. Ii
is ready for vou, a crowu uf glory and
homr. Why nut put it on to-Jay.
Jonesboro, N
(the who transaction wis as much
mystery to us as to them), was that they
were to be taken to Viuksburgas priso
ners id war, but were on no account to
suffer any discomfort or indignity
Ot couisj, there was a great weeping
wailing and gnashing of teeth from ten
der mothers, I iving, sisters and Irate
fathers an I brothers, liut the ineideni
h id to be acc epted as belonging to ill
furtuuess of war, and at the end otlwi
hours forty-nine of the fifty, attend
by aniious friends and relatives, were at
the rendezvous. Mercy was implored
lor the one delinquent. An additional
hour was granted, and at their own
suggestion several of the young women
were dispatched to her home to persuade
her to follow their example in c.racclull
submitting to the inevitable The result
till G I'(ISKI) full ONE IMCTl'KE
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though in a very defiant mood
' Uir troubles, however, by no meaus
ended here. Indeed ihey were hatdly
tairiy ucun. the next question was
ho to trau-p irt our beautiful enptivef
to Hoduey, a distance ol some twenty
miles, over roads that were io frightful
condition from the devastations of wai
and coust-ipucul ueglect. AJI the good
horses, too, like all the good lueti were
oil tu the war, aud as lor carnages, they
bid most decidedly fallen into a stale ol
iunocuous desuitu le. Tuere was obvious
ly nothing for us to do, therefore, but to
gather together all the bioken-down old
horses aud dilapidated vehicles in l hi
vicinity, which we somehow managed to
bitch together with plough harness s.
bits of rope, straps, etc. With these
improvised coaches druwn up into line
began the proce as of loading on our vie
titnp, and when they were all slowed
away it was a motley luokiug procewdon,
I can assure you, JCven the sound ol
farewells and the iglit of weeping eyei
oould not bliul us li li e huinotoua as
pect of (he scene. Vou tnut teiuembei
that wc were all prell y young fellows it
tKt The civil war was lougbt by men
whoe average age was oly 21 Well
we made our way slowly, amid tear-
and laughter, to Uod uey, where we em
balked lor vicKsburg. I pou ainviu)
h.-re the yoiin W' tnvn were taken bcfiir.
the provost marshal, who put ilnm
parole, coon ling (hem to the limits ul
the city, .'lost ot them bad hieuds in
town with wh uu they chose to rcuiaiu
and suitable q larters were found for the
rest
The reason for the whole transaetiou
then transpired. It see ued that some
Northern 'oung wom in school tachcn
bad been taken prisoners by (he C'onfed
eratea, and were at lb it momeut iu (licit
camps, where they were forced to wash
and mend tor itie sutlers, and pe torni
nlher mniiitl m.reine Thi.nH l,iif,.,lur.
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Astieikie wisely observes, the story of
separate chapters of the Itible, or even
verses, if it could be known, would ho a
record of surpassing interest. In the ex
peiieoce of everyone some texts sliiuc
like stars, as we think of personal Inn's
they brightened, or death-beds of friends
tbey cheered. Every religious life bor
rows thus its own secret illumiuation
from year to year, its own galaxies and
bright particular stars, which have
soothed disappointments, tempered calam
ities, and filled the mind with a calm and
steadfast serenity io the darkest moments
Human compositions catch its power as
they embody its spirits and repeat its
words. Kings and peasants, philosophers
and the illiterate, martyrs and confessors,
have alike been cheered, iuspired aud
sustained by its wondrous wurds, Ii has
created the lustiest poetry and the suh
blimest art the world ever knew, and u
literature uniipic in its power and dignity-
There is hardly a chapter that has nut,
perhaps, in some uf its verses kindled
sentiments unknown to antiquity. There
is a transcendent vigor and life in every
page. A single verse made Anthony
that he hud, and introduced through
bis doing so, a new era iu eeelesiasiieul
history. At a single warning of lb
pislles, Augustine's heart was inched
uuder the fig tree at Milan. A siugh
chapter uf Isaiah made a penitent be
liever of (he profligate llouliester. .1
word to St. 1'aul has become the sluing
hold of hut her.
Cromwell charged at Dunbar, to the
cry, "Arise, (J God, and let thine ene
mica bo scattered!" And Authony
drove away his temptations by the same
appeal. Thomas Arnold murmured in
djiog ; "If je be without chastisement
whereol all are partakers, then arc ye
bastards and unisons," and "Blessed are
(hev who have not seen, and vet have
helii ved " Selina, Countess of Hunting
don, died qiiotiug I hrist s words, 1 gi
to my Father.'' Lady Jane Grey wrot
in the hook of the Lieutenant of the
Tower belore her enrol ion : "Tim d i
of death is belter than the day of birth.
Latimer, at (he stake, roused his soul by
(he remembrance that "G id is faithful
and will not i-nller us Io be leuipted abovi
what we are able." Luther died crying
"Into thy hands I commit my spirit
The I'saller aloue, by its manifold a
plications and uses in after times is a vast
palimpsest written over and over again
illumiualed, illu-tuted by every cuocciv
able incident aud emotion of men and
nations, bailies, wanderings, escapes
death-beds, obsequies of many ages and
cmntrics, rise, or may rise, to to our
view, as we read it. What shall we say
of a book so uiauy-toiijjucd, so inteuscly
human, so authoritatively divine? Let
critics and theorists stumble at words or
phrase; let some things remain (o the
end ' hard to be understood;'' whose
voice can it be but God's, which rises
still and holy over the turmoil of life, in
a thuusaud peisuasions, commands and
promises, to wain us of danger, to guide
us aright, and to soothe our infinite cares
aud sorrows .' It is a noble passage iu
which Augustine contrasts antiquity and
Scripture, aud gives his fealty as a Chris
tian man must . In Cicero aod in Plato,
and such writers I meet many things
tinely said, things that move the spirit
hot in Uoiie of them do I find these
words: "Come uuto me all ye that labor
and are heavy laden, and I will give you
res'. I hristian Herald.
OFF TO KANSAS.
NEITHER OF THE GlltLS WERE SI I EASI
LY WON AS THEY (ifl'POSEl).
II KB .MEMORIAL IS IN THE LIVES Of
THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM Nil E I A-1K1KEII.
Had it not been for a mortgage on a
Missouri homestead I he world would
never have seen Asthy l. M. Cooper's
wonderful painting, "Trilby." There
might have been a painting of that sub
et by the same artist, but it could never
live been the Itiaterpieee the present
painting is. It was (hat mortgage dial
gave Mr. Cooper bis beautiful model
Some years ago this young woman was
living the happy life of a country girl on
her wealthy father's farm in western
Missouri, She grew up wild aud free,
unrestrained iu spirits aud form, living
very close to nature. No corsets ever
encircled her wuit and no right shoes
distorted her feet. She grew to woman
hood ao unfettered child if nature, beau
tiful in face and foim. Then came mis-
ortuue for her lather. The grasshop
pers devastated his fields, and be was
compelled Io mortgage the homestead.
The father siekened and died leaving his
wife and daughter without resources
and wild a mortgaged home. They went
tu Kansas City, where the mother se
cured employment as a cashier in a de
part tuent store and the daughter as cloak
model iu the same establishment. Their
common purpose was to save mouey en
ough to pay off the mortgage un the
homestead. As they came and went to
aud from their work they attracted at
tention, and soon all eyes wele upon
them. The young woman soou became
known as the "Living Venus," and
such was known to many people who
knew not hi g of her life.
At this ime an artist friend, who
lived in Kansas City, wrote to Mr. Cooper
that be had sceu the woman of goddess
like form b i alone would serve for t
model for a perfect Trilby, kuuwing (hat
Cooper was searching for such a model
The artist weut posthaste to Kansas City
He managed io secure an introduction to
the beautiful ::irl, and with all possible
taet suggestid his purpose. She indig
oanlly lefused his offer, but Cooper was
so impnssed wi b her beauty that be
would not be content with a refusal II
argued with tin mother, persuaded her
aud promised a price that would raise the
mortgage aud el deavured to show the
daughter thai there need be uo sacrifice
of maidenly mod ty. He told her that
her mother could go with her and be
with her all the time she was posing
Finally she yield' d At Cooper's beauli
ful home in Sau Jose, Cal , during the
following four months, she was the sole
mi iel and furnished the inspiration fur
this great pictui' When the picture
was completed, b till mother and daugh
ler relumed Io I ansas City, where the
daughter was soi n married. Washing
ton Host.
That Dick Brandon was good looking,
agreeable and withal a jolly good fellow
nu one could deny. He was a great
lavunte Willi the lair nci, iu tact was
nerally called a "heart-masher," aud
no one has a more exalted opinion of his
capabilities ill that hue than Diek him-
nnr
Queenaware. Cutlery, Plows, Plow
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Cast-
scrupulous dealer will try to induce a cus
tomer to take some worthless remedy.
alleged to be "jusl as good."
U U.a M.lat.M It. l.linlH li-lati fMn.
N. I , writrft : We fulhllrcl un engagrmrnl ol
twelve weeks an1 ISe constant Itsvennf gave
me h,l tmirh of thai ilrrstlvd disease died
riy.pep.ia. I had Ivted everything poMlh,f to
core It till last weva wnne piavni. mi . r
beld as hostages until the Northern wo
men were released. There was little de
lay in the exchange, and we had our
fair visitors io Vicksburg only thirty
days. They were, however, vety gay,
delightful days, iankee officers aud
Confederate maidenB intermingled social
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We were chums in boyhood, and un
folded to each other all our plans and
purposes for (he future, and later confi
ded more delicate matters, not omitting
affairs of the heart. Knowing bis fond
ness for the ladies I was not surprised to
receive a letter from him asking my ad
vice on a matter which very nearly con
cerned himself, and in which was in
volvcd perhaps his future happiness and
dcsiiny.
1, ol course, was concerned lor my
friend at this, but was somewhat relieved
after reading the following :
And now, dear Sam, without giving
you time to imagine anything very horri
ble, I will frankly tell you (hat I am in
love. Perhaps you will say, 'that's noth
ing new,' but just wait until you hear all.
You see, if it was a common love set ape
as I have had many times in the past,
I could get along well enough. But this
time it is a little complicated a kind of
ublc affair. Come now, Sam, don't
think I am a fool, but the fact is that
Anuiu Lane is the prettiest little creature
iu the world. Young, beautiful, a flee
donate, she is everything I could ask, in
short, I love her as 1 havo never loved
before. But then, alas! she is poor,
That is her misfortune. Were I rich.
(hat would not weigh a feather, but you
know I am not.
"The other Mary Preston, is beauti
ful, gay, accomplished, wealthy. The
former I love, the latter I esteem and ad
mire. 1 think 1 may say (hat neither ol
them is iudillerunt tome, but could be
had for the asking. Now, Sam, what
shall I do? Marry the girl I really love
and reiualu a poor devil all uiy days; or,
by forming an alliance with the oilier, at
once acquire wealth and positiou? An
swer me, aud thereby greatly relieve
Your old friend,
"Dick "
I did answer him. After expatiating
upon the blessings of wedded life, connu
bial bliss, loving hearts, etc , I closed by
conjuring him as he valued his future
happiness, by all means to marry the one
beloved; and as for the "beautiful, accom
plished and wealthy Mary Preston, I
would come ou in due time and marry
her myself."
I heard nothing more from my love
perplexed friend for about six months,
when be wrote me as follows :
"DearSa.m I courted them both
(the rich one first ) and couldn't get
either of them! Goodby ! I am goiog
to Kansas.
"Yours,"
"Dick."
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Because peop e go into it with their eyes
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"Let a man die," says the Fireside
Guard, "and he is suddenly full of good
qualities, his faults are all forgotlen and
ouly the good is remembered. Why not
speak good of (he living?"
Just for this reason, gentle reader. If
you lake your pen in your hand and
write a whole lot of praise of some liv
ing man, you will in all probability, live
Io be given the lie by that man's actions,
lor wc all play the lool at some (line
while we are on the singe ot action.
Aod tlu n, it you praise a man who can
not bear praise, aud some men are so
constituted that a little praise makes most
usijno fools of (hem, yiu have dart
a great deal more harm than if you had
kept your mouth shut. With these fails
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TOO VilSK.
Charity may begiu at h line, but re
form begins elsewhere.
The world owes every man ao exist
ence, but not a living.
There's no re-dress for the man who
has but one suit of clothes.
A little white lie is always side-tracked
for a big black one.
The way of the transgressor may be
hat J, but it's usually pretty smooth.
A man can make a good bluff by look
ing wise and keeping his mouth closed
Literary men resemble hens. The
author lays a plot and the editor sits on
it.
The good man who goes wrong is
reality a bad man who has just been
found out.
When some people make up llisir
minds they leave out a lot of important
matter,
Worry never cures an evil, but
sometimes relieves the monotony of much
happiness.
When ordering a new ribbon for your
typewriter always specify whether it's for
her oi lor it.
The poet possesses wouderful power.
The mere sight of ooe has been known
to raise the hair of an editor.
The individual who spends his time in
telling what he is going to do after he
gets there always fails to arrive.
The evil that men do lives after them.
Even when an amateur cornetist dies he
cannot take the fatal instrument with
him.
"I told him he didn't dare kiss me,
she said.
Then she added, regretfully:
1 1 sized him up just right." Chicago
Post.
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Don't have a helpmeet until you have
meat to help.
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For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Hate Always Bought
9lgntur of ffJUl
The wide hall was sombre with minis
terial biosdcloth, but here and there a
bit of gay ribbon betokened the presence
a woman or a business suit suggested
a member of the laity,
The siir aud whispered conversation
which usually precede a business meet
ing were noticeably absent. The gath
ering had met fur (hat lenderest and
most pathetic incident uf Methodist Con
ference week, I he annual memorial meet
ing, when one alter another of the assem
bled uiiuisters pays tribute to tho memo
ry of those who have passed to their re
ward during the year.
Death had claimed four members of
I lie Conference (his year, and four of tho
brethren who had known them best gave,
each in turn, the brief history of their
humble lives. Then ooe uf the presiding
elders arose und began to speak .'
"It is my privilege," he said, "Io offer
a word uf loving tribute to the memory
of Mary Watson If'ake, wife of our
brother, John Wesley Blake."
At the first mentio l of the name,
little, stoop-shouldered man near the cen
ter of the house bowed his head lower
and lower until the foiehcad rested on
his hand. The simple story which the
presiding elder had begun to tell was in
large measure the story of the little man's
owo life. How the past came back to
him as he listened !
11-; thought of his first meeting with
Mary Watson, while he was still a stu
dent in the seminary; of the acquaintance
ripening into love; of bcr promise to be
his wife, made on the day of his ordina
tion. All his life he had wondered how
it was that she had been content to ac
cept the little he had to offer the hard
lot of a Methodist minister's wife.
And it had been a hard lot. Uncom
plainingly she had gone with him from
village Io village, with never any perma
nent abiding place; always courteous and
tactful, even with the most uncongenial
and stifT-uecked parishoners; living con
stantly in the bright light of public scru
tiny and criticism; annually making bis
pitifully small salary perform miracles;
eeping open house for visiting clergy
men and evangolisls; dispensing a cheer
ful hospitality to every itinerant canvasser
for religious books these, he thought
with a heavy heart, were the things
hich had made up the life of Mary
Watson Blake.
The little preacher was honest with
himself. He knew that he had never
been more than a feeble rushlight io the
Church, and that his appointments, poor
as they had been, would have been poorer
still but for her who had been so faith
ful a helper and had so ably supplemented
his preaching with her personality.
"And this is all," be thought bitterly.
"Ten minutes of eulogy for a lifetime of
such service. U if they could only
know what she was and what she did I"
The voice of the presiding elder died
away, and another voice broke in upon
the stillness. A man was speaking, whom
some of those present recogniied as the
owner of the woolen mills at Bclden.
"Ten years ago," he said, "a new pas
tor came with his wife to the church in
our town. I bad lost my own wife three
years before that, and since her death my
son had fallen into bad company, and
sunk lower and lower, until his very
name had become a disgrace to me and
a reproach to the town. In some way, I
oannot tell you how, this new minister'!
wife gained hold upon him. She lifted
bim out of his degradation, out of him
self, aod put the heart of a man into him
again. It is duo, under God, to Mary
Watson lllako that I oan say to you all
to day, 'This my son was dead, aod ii
alive again.' "
In the hush which followed the gather
ing begin to disperse, but before the lit
tle bent figure of the preacher had
reached the door, two other figures,
elbowing their way through the crowd,
met him. Tbey were both men in the
prime of life, and as they passed out with
their old friend, each had something to
say of the past.
"It was your wife, sir," said one, "who
gave me my first impulse aod first en
couragement to study lor the ministry. I
wish 1 oould tell her now of my appoint
ment to the Jefferson Avenuo Churoh,
and how earnestly I am going to try to
make a worthy use of the groat opportu
nity.
What the other man said wu lost in
the buzz of conversation at the door, but
tt carried the thoughts of the little minis
ter back to a young "tough" in a seaboard
town where he bad taught i aoore of
years ago.
"God forgive me I" be said humbly,
"io my sorrow and my complaining Her
memorial is In the lives of the people for
whom we hate suffered aod labored.
With God is let reward." Youth'. .
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