THE MORGANTON STAR, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 9. 1888
A CONFESSION.
-ou remember, little wife,
" years ago we two together
Ei-v.- nti -.-rht "out love illnmine life
In .-r.iiuy daj's or winter weather!
Do you recall in younger years
To part a :.iy was bitter pain?
Loves light v.i ? hid in c'ouds of tears
Ti.l meeting cleared the sky again.
Do vou remember how we two
Would stare i ; 1 1 o each other's eyes ,
Ti ": all the eartii i::-ew heavenly blue
And spee?h was lost in happy sighs?
D you another thing recall,
T hat used to happen often then :
H v. si'mplv, passing in the hall,
A .'d stop to dmilo and kiss again?
Df . tcj remember how I sat
-' iid, reading, held your hand in mine,
Ci .--ssfng it with gentle pat
Cue pat for every blessed line?
To vou recall how at the play
Through hours of agony we tarried?
The lovers1 griefs brought us dismay;
Ch, we rejoiced when they were married.
And then walked homeward arm in arm,
Beneath the crescent moonlet new,
That smiled on us with silent charm;
So glad that we were married too. .
Ah me, 't was years and years ago
When all this happened that I sing.
And many a time the winter snow
Has slipped from olive slopes of spring.
And now oh. nonsense! let us tell;
A fig for laugh of maids or men !
You'll hide your blushes? I'll not. Well
Were ten times worse than we were then.
W. J. Henderson, in the Centurj.
DICK JOHNSON'S REVENGE.
A SKETCH OF MOBMOX LIFE.
They were the most contented ' family
in the world. The father was by turns
a prospector, a trapper, or a rancher, but
he never succeeded in making a good
living any way. He was a remarka
bly handsome mountaineer, tail ar.l
strong, and he looked on honest labor as
unc wiiiemu mm. ins wora was nis
"bond; he contracted no debts that he
could not pay; yet he often cut up a fat
steer and divided the meat among his
neighbors, who sent him vegetables and
groceries in return, and never asked
where the fat steer had come from. Per.
haps
they knew. When a herd passed
aionir
the dusty lush-road the women
smiled at each other and said : "I guess
we'll hev some fresh meat to morrow."
Sometimes he would drive into town
with a team of high-stepping, smooth
coated horses attached to his rusty old
butkboaid. Then his friends crowded
about him, stroking the glossy necks,
examining the white teeth, but no one
iu. in mi-e r.iormon settlement ever ;
thought of inquiring where he got them.
f)ick .Johnson was the kindest of men
to his friends and family, yet he had his
record. He would be lynched promptly
if he should ever return to Montana; he
had shot a bridgekeeper who demanded
toll of liim, and, altogether, the deaths
of ka' f a dozen men were caused by the
well-known fact that "Ole Dick wuz
mighty lively with his pistols when he
got 'null h sky aboard."
11 is wife did not always have a good
print dress to wear to town, the chil
dren were seldom provided with shoes,
but die always seemed contented and
lazily happy, and there was not a mer
rier et ot little ones. The mother was a
fair-haired, blue-eyed woman, and the
children all looked like her.
"The children mostly awl look like
me," she would say, with an amiable
smile; "awl of 'em "'cent Caddie, and I
guess die looks more like her pa."
"You kin jest bet I do, and I'm
mighiy t?lad 1 haven't no tow-head like
these ne re young 'uns," Caddie would
answer, the was a remarkably hand
some girl, and people who admired her
delicate, dark face, were always shocked
wiien her coarse voice and coarser lang
uage were heard. Of course, this ener
getic girl ruled the whole family; the
man, who, in spite of his strength and
fercc'ty was as tender-hearted and simple
minded as a child, the indolent, amiable
woman, and the swarm of tow-headed
children.
Caddie had dreams of something dif
ferent from the vagrant life that satis
fled the rest of the taaiily. Sometimes
she saw herself a busy wife and mother,
moving about the two or three rooms of
a log farm house, with a few hardy
flcwets struggling for existence in the
small front garden, with current bushes,
strawberry vices, and flourishing vege
tables surrounding the house, and with
waving fields of gram stretching awav to
the dai k mountains that bound these
Western valleys.
She confided th?se visions to
mother once.
her
"I tell yer what, maw," she said,
"when I git married I hain't a-goin' to
hev no sech a ferlorn 'doby shanty ez.
this here. It'll hev to he a lor house.
iju. wen piasiereu. aa' wnitewasneu in
side mi' out. An' there'll be the purtiest
rag carpet on the front room floor you
ever see, an' a good board floor in the
kitchen, too. An' I'll hev a likely colt
to ride, an' some cows, so's to hev lots of
miik an' butter, au' yer bet yer life I'll
be boss o' the hull ranch."
"Y'ew've always hed fine idees in
yew're head, Caddie' drawled her
mother; "aa' ef yew marries Bishop
Burns, like yew're pa wants yew tew,
maybo he'll giv' yew a big house, but
yew knew well enuffi that Dan Williams
can't do no sech thing fer ye.'
"Huh!" observed Caddie. "Ef
that
bull-headed ole Burns ever comes
a-shinin' 'round me he'll get sech a crack
in 'is jaw '11 make him see stars, or else
my name hain't Cad Johnson."
"Wall, I guess he'd better not risk it,
then," !aid the woman, with a feeble
laugh. Yew're' pa's a-hitchin': up the
hostes,Cadd:e, an' I reckon yew'd better
pack thet there bit o' butter in a box,
an' mehbe ole , Burns ull give yew some
shoes fer it ef yew're real nice tew him."
"All right," answered Caddie. "Look
a-here, you Tom, I'll kick you into the
middle of next week if you don't stop
tryiu' to lasso that there pig. Come
along here now, an' git yer face washed.
We're goin' to the 'Co-op.,' an' mebbe
you'll git some candy ef you'll behave
yourselves." " .
There was only one seat in the wagon,
and on it sat Dick Johnson and his wife,
who held tha baby in their arms.
Caddie sat on the box in the back of the
wagon, and the children rolled around
her in the hay that was always taken
along for tb.e horse3 to eat while the
women were trading in the Co-operative
store and the man was drinking at the
one saloon.
The road ran along the bank of a river,
whose gleaming breadths, seen at inter
vals through the overhanging willows,
together with the long sweep of green
and brown and gold bunch-grass that
bowed its tasseled heads as the breeze
passed over it. waving like a many
colored sea, away to the dark mountains
with their snowy tops, formed a picture
almost sublime in its perfect loveliness.
"That there grass is e'en a most ready
to cut," remarked old Dick. "I guess
I'll borry the Bishop's hay-rick to
morrer, an' go after a load o' hay, an'
you youngsters kin come along an' help
stamp it, ef you want to."
The children set up a joyful shout, for
this was a treat to them, as it would, be
to any one, to tumble about in the long
grass, to fish for minnows in the cool,
gurgling creek, to wade into it knee-deep
for watercress, to pick tart, wild straw
berries, and to eat all these delicacies
with the sweet home-made bread and
country butter. And after this delight
ful day, how pleasant it was to roll in the
sweet-smelling hay, with the breezes
cooling their sun-burned cheeks during
the long ride home.
The wagon drew up at last in front of
the village store, and the girl marshaled
the children into the "Co-op." with a
good deal of forcible persuasion.
"How de do, Sister Johnson," said the
storekeeper, who was also the Mormon
Bishop; '"'well, Caddie, I see you're as
fat and sarsy as you ever was."
Caddie stared at him scornfully, not
because she was offended at his free lan
guage, she was quite used to that; but
this uncouth creature had as much nat
ural coquetry as any other 15-year old
girl.
"How much be you pain' fer tip-top
butter now?" she asked; 'Til let you
hev' this here, ef you'll giv' me six bits
a roll fer it."
"Oh, come now," he said, "you donTt
want to do me out of all my profits like
that. Seem it's you, I'll let yc hev two
bits a pound fer it, and that's more'n I'd
fc -far t Tl-vrtrl tt alco
"Weil," said the girl, "I guess I'll
jest look at some shoes, and if I kin see
a pa'r I like, I'll jest take 'em for the
butter."
Caddie's mother had gone with her
numerous offspring to visit a friend, and
Caddie was left alone to do her trading.
Her elderly admirer took advantage of
this fact to plead his case with the hand
some girl.
"You've got a purty face fer a gal of
your size," he said, as she tried on a pair
ot calfskin shoes, declining all help
from him.
"Huh!" said the lady, too engrossed
with her task to notice the compliment;
"these here shoes fits kinder slick, but
I don't b'lifive they'll hold water when
the saow comes."
"Oh, they'll hold water fast enough,"
he answered; "but they ain't half
nice
enough fer such a handsome gal. Now
here's a pa'r o' kid shoes I'm savin' fer
mv wile."
"Well," asked Caddie, sharply,
"then
why don't vou give um to her?
tehe
needs um bad enuff."
"-Now look a-here, Cad," he said,
"that's torn-foolishness, an' you know
it; Mirardy don't want fer nothin', an'
she don't care about fineries, but most
girls does, an' I tell you what, my sec
ond'il hev the nicest duds o' any woman
in town."
Caddie had put on her shoes again by
this time, aud she dd not propose ta
listen to h m any longer. It would not
be wise to quarrel with the Bishop, but
she had no desire "to play second fiddle
in no kind o' music," and she told him
so.
'Haw, haw, haw,'' he laughed, "I
guess not. I kin jest sea the way my
ole woman '11 hev to step around when
you air Mrs. Burns. See here, Caddie,"
he edded, as she turned to go, "1 want
to talk to vou, an' vou mieht jest as
1 well listen now as enny other time. You
know your pa went prospectin' last year,
au-1 furnished the grub fer the trip.
Well, he found a putty good claim, an'
now an eastern company's sent an expert
1 out here to look at it, an' like as not
they'll buy it. Well, one night yer pa
got purty full here in town, and I got
him to sign a bill o' sale of the mine.
Now he don't know nothin' 'bout the
company, an' he don't
know
thet
the
paper he signed wuz a bill o' sale. I've
got a grubbiu' on the mine, ennyway,an'
I've sot '."aires o' in; own an' money, too.
an' I wouldn't mind givin' this bill o'
sale to you if yon'd be sensible an' marry
me, like your pa wants you to."
"I don't b'lieve you've got no bill o'
sale," said the girl quietly; "show me
the paper."
Her face was dark with anger. She
! looKea very prettv as she sat there in
I the dingy little store on a long packing
i i i ' I. I. i j i
! oox; ner glorious crown nair naa oeen
blown loose by the wind, her ragged
sunbonnet hung by its strings around her
neck, her blue eyes were bright with ex
citement, and her brown cheeks glowed
The Bishop looked at her admiringly as
he returned with the paper. Mie rose
! to her feet, and her slight, round figure
calico, its graceful curves. She moved
round between him and the open door
of the stove, in which a wood fire burned,
for the evenings are cold in these moun.
tain villages, and then, as he read aloud,
she suddenly snatched the paper and
threw it into the stove. He sprang for
ward with an oath, but it was too late,
and when he turned to look for the girl
she was gone.
The next day Dick Johnson rode up to
the saloon, and gravely announced to
the loungers there that he meant to
shoot old Burns on sight, and that the
3aid Burns had better have his gun
handy. Then the injured man began to
fortify himself with whisky for the ap
proaching duel.
"What's the matter with Burns?"
asked one of the crowd; ''I alius thought
that von wir on the best kind o' terms
with the Bishop."
"Lh, he s lived long enough, that's
all," answered old Dick; "an' my arms
air a-gittin' rusty fer want o' use.
" His enemy had been warned Dick was
drunk enough to be dangerous, and so
he thought there was no reason for wait
ing any longer, and rising he slipped
quietly out of the saloon and walked
over to the "Co-op."
Arriving theie he stood near the door
watching the proprietor, until the latter
turned, when the hands of both men tlew
to their ready pistols, and the shots rang
was a dead shot, stood calmly looking
at his victim. The murdered man's wife
out. The Bishop fell, and Dick, who
ran in from her rooms behind the store
and flung herself down beside the body
with a heart-rending shriek. Then
the men from the saloon rushed in and
stood looking si'ently at the Weeding
corpse and at the poor wife,, who
mourned the dead man as sincerely as
though he had been the kindest of hus
bands to her.
Her pitiful sobbing aroused the sym
pathies of the rough crowd, and they
began to look angrily at the victor. One
man pointed siguticantly to a coil of rope
lying on the counter, but the rest looked
at the revolver still grasped in the fallen
man's hand, and they shook their heads.
Dick Johnson saw and understood and
he quietly backed up against the wall,
drew another six-shooter, and pro
ceeded to make his defence, lie told
the story of the bill of sale:
"You see, boys, he swindled me.
Now, you know, a man ain't a-goin' to
be cheated like that an' not try to git
revenge for it. I give him fair warniu,
he had his chance at me ; I done it all up
reg'lar, an there hain't no call fer hard
feelin'a ag n me. I'm sorry for her, but
you know it ain't ray fault because her
man was a scamp an' needed killin'."
His revolvers helped him to make his
peace. These men were not cowards,
but they knew they could not take him
alive aimed in, that way, and, besides,
they thought Ms conduct quite proper,
so he was promptly acquitted by this in
formal jury and he went quietly home.
Thus was rude justice done. Thus,
too, was it that Caddie did not marry a
Bishop, but became Dan Williams
bride. San Francisco ArgmauU-
The German Soldier's- Equipment.
A new outfit is being rapidly intro
duced throughout the whole German
army. One, indeed, of the alterations,
as it does not involve any new equip
ment, has beea already taken up by all
the regiments that is, the strapping of
the overcoat round the knapsack instead
of over the shoulders and across the
body. This has the great advantage of
allowing the man to breathe more freely
and to open his coat if he wishes. The
knapsacfc itself has been changed and is
of a longer shape than befoie. It con
sists of two parts, the knapsack proper
and the pocket, the former containing
the soldier's linen, the latter the famous
'pease-sausage,r and bacon.
?he
belt
Sj in the new ou,ut, an important, ana
serves to make th3 whole equipment fast.
rom it, on the left, hangs the bayonet,
which has been so shortened that it is
iiow merely a light dagger not a foot
ong; while in front two pouches are at
tached, each containing thirty cartridges
uhs non-commissioned officers have
smaller pouches holding only fifteen
each). Behind is a third pouch, which,
contains forty cartridges, made up in
two pasteboard cases. These are a re
serve, and were formerly kep; in the
knapsack. By. this change the sold;er
carries twenty cartridges more than for
merly. On the right hangs the bread
wallet, which is larger than the old pat
tern. It has no longer a belt of its own,
but hangs directly from the sword, belt,
thus relieving the chest. The water
riik is hooked on the bread-wallet. The
pannikin used to bo fastened in tha mid
dle of the knapsack, but is now laid flat
on the top with the forage-cap,, which
was formerly under the flap of the knap
sack, below it. The combined, result is
that thi soldier's chest is almost quite
free, aud that the air can circulate be
tween the knapsack and his back. lit
can also by merely undoing his belt take
off the whole of his accoutrements. The
trenching tool is not carried on the sol
dier's back, but haugs at his left side
with the tavonet. SL Jimefi Gazette.
The Last-Car Tracer.
"Were it not for the
constant vijxi-
lance or the great railroad companies in
keeping watch, of their freight car the
toss of rolling stock and damaue result
ing from delays and mistakes would
prove a source of seriou3 financial loss to
all concerned, said a prominent railroad
official to a New York Telegram re
porter.
"Nearly all the great roads employ a
orps ot what are known as 'lost-car
earchers or tracers.' Every freight car
is cumbered and used for a certain pur
pose, and whether it be a 'gondola' or
a
t open car, or a box car, it can be
traced from one end of the country to
the other. The 'seirchers' will follow a
clew to San Francisco if necessary, and
see that the car is returned to its proper
station. The 'car searcher' has beea a
most a tive airent of the railroads for
many years past, but, as in every other
busin1 ss. improved methods are con
stantly introduced.
"At last our great trunk line road has
dispensed with the car searcher in favor
of a large force of responsiblft clerks,
with telegraph and telephone as auxilia
ries. So sjsiemati ally is their work
done that, if the conductor of a freight
train were to make the slightest error in
the numbers of the cars in his train or a
description of them, it would be detected
and the conductor called up to rectify
it. If a car is reported missing in any
part of the country one of these clerk by
referring to his books can toil at what
point the particular car should be at the
time aud when it should be returned. It
is a great department."
Mollie Stark.
The speech popularly attributed to
General "john Stark on going into the
battle of Bennington, August 1(5, 1777,
was: "Boys, we hold that field to-night,
or Mollie's Stark's a widow." His wife,
the daughter of Caleb Page, of Starks
town, now Dumbarton, N. II., was
named Elizabeth, and though, there is
much discussion about the matter, it 13
probable, that the legend is correctly
given by Rev. J. 1. Rodman in his cen
tennial poem of the "Battle of Beu
uington:" Tbe morning came there stood the foe;
Stark eyed them as they stood ;
Few words he spoke 'twas not a time
For moralizing mood.
"See there the enemy, my boys I
Now, strong in valor's might.
Beat them, or Betty Stark will sleep
In widowhood to-night,"
IVasAingrton Star,
There is a marked difference between tha
W. C. T. Union in China and . Japan. The
officers and workers in the former are Ameri
can missionaries, while in the latter, the
native women take full control pres'de,
lecture, write and publish leaflets, and Qxrrj
on the enterprise successfully.
TEMPERANCE.
Who Is Thy Neighbor ?
Thv neizhbor? it is he whom thou
Hast power to aid and bless;
Whose acb ng heart or burning brow
Thy soothing hand may press.
Thy neighbor? 'tU the fainting poor
Whose eye with want is dim.
Whom hunger semis from door to door
Go thou and succor him.
Thy neighbor? ti that drunken man.
Whose year3 are at the brim.
Bent low with poverty and pain;
Go thou and rescue him.
Thy neighbor? 'tlhis wife, bereft
Of every oarthly Rem;
This wife and children helpless left;
Go thou and shelter tnein.
Where e'er thou meet" st a human form
Neaih drunkenness beat down,
RememUr 'tis thy neighbor worm)
Thy brother, or thy ton.
ras; not, oh pass not heedless by,
i erhap-j thou canst redeem.
Himself and his from misery;
Go reason, plead with bmu
G.W.Cook. it. "Laitl'-AjLe of Tpmperance.n
A Child's Wo rfc,
A few months ntro a cosy little cbapel v
dedicated as the 1 h.rd Lutheran. Church
an Ohio c ty. Very-happy were the tw.
older churches to welcome tha younj; sister,
and very wonderful did the biessiiig seem.
Five years lief ore there was only one Lu
theran Church in the -town, .and it seemed
like only yesterday that the parent church
had bi Jden "Godspeed" to a little- company
as they Jeft to form the scond church. And
now there are three. How (Jod. has blessed
them and multiplied their number! And
to think that it ha all, under God. come
about ly a little five-yearoid maiden coax
ing her drunken father to go -to Sunday
schxl with her!
It happened in this wl-e: About forty
vears ago. in a little mountain town in an
Eastern State, a boy was led astray by evil
coinpanions,and h arned to drink and swnoke,
and to hecoine a dissipated youth. His pa
rents moved at last to Ohio, and for a while
he began to grow steadier, and; married a
brave" little woman. Uut, alas! evil influ
ence aga n gained their hold upon him, and
ha became a drunken sot, given up- to all
kinds of evil and sin.
One day when he happened to-be moder
ately sobr, h s little tive-year-old daughter
came in, and climbed up on his lap. Putting
her arms around his neck, she exclaimed:
"ily dear little drunken daddy
It seemed as though a knife had. cut into
his very soul. With a questioning look he
turned to h s wife.
"Jfo, 1 did not tell her; she has heard it
somewhere else," was her answer.. It startle-i
and roused him; for. wretch as he wa.v ha
love i the inr.ot-ent little ch.ld.
Francis Murphy came to the town soon
after; and one day l.ttle Nell came dancing
up to her papa, with a dozen or so little blue
temperance badges pinned ail over her hat.
Her father declared afterward that every
one went through h.m like an arrow.
A few days after, a teliow-drinker, who
had already signed the pledge, came and
asked him to sign it also, lie agreed to do
so if some others would; and as a result,
nearly thirty i f the lowest men in the town
were rescued from the power of strong drink.
A little time pasi, and rseil statt.tlto
the Lutheran Sunday-school; and very soon
came the pleading little vo.ee: "1'apa, won't
you go to Sun-iay-school whith me lient
Sunday P He could uot resist the little one,
and went with her. The sweet s ning pleased
him, and to went again. AttT his 'second
visit, ha hunted up an o!d t s-ciate, now a
sober man, and hailed him with: "'ay.
Johnson, if you'll go to Sunday-school, I
will!'
Johnson laughed and scoffed aJittJebut
finally agreed to try it. He, too, was
pleased; and they, after a while, got a dozen
more rough men like themselves, and formed
a Bible class. They discussed the hssons.
oiten with ridicule and unbeliet; an I by and
by the Holy Spirit began to work in tha
midst, and some of them were converted,
among them litt!e Nell's pat-a.. Th chis
began to grow to twenty -five, rifty.soventy
five, one hundred, one hundred and fitly!
a'l men, and all interested in tno lesion
study.
In the meantime all this was having its in
fluence with the school proper, and lis num
ber increase! irom four hunired to nin
hundred in a very short time. The church
ulsi caught tiiti'.usia.-:T. and at last grew s
in numbers that it divided and fumv-ni the
second cuurch and now a third. Humanly
sneaking, this has come from the- seal sown
by a little girl.
All this happened about ten. years ajo.
Nell's father is an honored ant respertel
business man, and his elegant hoioo speaks of
his prosperity. He is an earnest Carifctian
worker, a devoted temperance luou, and an
active prohibitionist.
Is it not wonderful? With Christ multiply
ing power, a very tiny. eClort may become
mizhty in its influence.
"iJe ye steadfast and unmovable. always
abounding in the woik of the Lord; foras
much as ye know that yoar laoor is not in
Tain in tne Lord." Sunday. School Times.
Whisky in the- "Woods.
In the I'ew York 0.rrer, Augustrw
writing from "Among tbe Lakes." and of
"N hisky in the Wooiis," says:
"Some come to. iho woods for other
purposes than those of health or sport. It is
a sad fact that many parties seek the
sec usions of nature lor tbe take of dissipa
tion, and that many a party u hose professed
aim istos.ioot, seldom hit anything except a
bottle during their stay in the woods, und
come out more shaky than they went in.
Such men do much to demoralise all of our
pleasure resorts, but their iniluence here is
most unfortunate upon young sportsmen, and
especially upon the guides. Upon the in
telligence, self-control and sobriety of thee
guides not only the pleasure of the" traveler.
But often his life depends. Sudden gusts of
wind come down upon the lakes, requiring
the watchfu!nrts and prompt action on the
part of the man who manages the frail canoe
in which you travel: in the wilder districts a
man needs to have all bis senses
wide . awake to avoid losing the
trail or to meet unexpected emer
gencies, and the guide who is addicted
to the whisky I ottle, as some of them ore,,
is a most unsale pilot or woodsman. There
have been some ureaatui outbreaks ot pas
sion growing out of. this habit or drinking.
A guide, wno Deliberately snot a man in a
quarrel this summer, is now roamiug about
in Hamilton and Irankl.n Counties, while a
reward of one thousand dollars for ma cap
ture is posted in the holes and public places.
Since the murder he has come into some of
the inns with his gun cocked, demanded.
food, received it, and been allowed to depart.
In general the guides are trusty, gcod-tem-
pered, and laborious but tbe tendency of as
sociation in large hotels with a dissipated
crowd, or in camps with those who have
come here to avoid social restrictions, is
most injurious to these simple and easily in
Buenced woodsmen."
Thus it will be seen that tbe whisky.
which causes such havoc in large cities, ia
not less a peru even in tbe wilderness.
The Vineyard and the Vine.
Dr. John Ellis, in the Ait Chri.lia iiht, in
a suggestive article, entitled "The Vineyard
and the Vine," writes:
"How wonderful the distinction between
the life-and-health-giving product of the
vine in the grape, and as pressed from the
grape ond preserved without fermentation,
of which our Lord and Master said: 'Drink
ye all of it, and the wine that maketh
drunken, which is likened, in ether passages
in the Word, to 'the poison of dragons and
the cruel venom of asps!' which tills man
both physically and spiritually, as we well
know, with all manner of uncleanliness and
Impurity! Oh, bow can Christians use or
countenance the use of Buch a wine!"
Tsot less than eighteen bills relating to in
toxicating liquors were before the British
House of Commons during its. lata session.
TSarlgatlnn and I.liuor-RelHrtij.
The United State Snrrtma Court, through
Jnstice llarlaD, lu recently rertlered an
other de.'-sion of much imparlance to xlo
cause of lemperaoce. The taptsnit of a
steamer, licemed a uch by the Un ot the
LntfeJ States. n-l eiisaed in intVrstat-s
commerce a the Uonouuhe'.a and Iho
Rivers, was arretted lor x iolatin the ex
law of reunsylvan.a lr sehiujr li ,uor mth
out lictrre. It km tr-ul cu the iris tint
ra vesel eajaced iutrniato commerce mw
s not lesaily arucinKe to the law of 1'enn
ylvana.even wlwn IjiDZ within its tern
f icr.al iinv.n. Th. pea was ovtrrul!. aud
Justu-6 Harlan riroared that a KeJeral
3censo to rnn a s tea a boat gave no authority
56 violate th p-ii o law of a State when
(.Hose laws- ouered no otiru -tion to the
right of pnbic niv:tioa. Th Ha judiriu
prwedt-nt of much valo. Had the ruliuof
lhe U. S. Supreme Court b en otherwise,
then all vej-so. navigating th- water w.tbm
the jurisdiction of prohibitory States. couM
iety their 1a. iit Uie maVer of liquor
fell nx with entire uupmuy Satioaal
Adfwate.
Tlicr-Ieiacr t tpior.
The-mril of btroug driak would be of com
paratively small magnitude if ooly those ad
dicted to its us wtre involved in the de-plorablo-consequences,
'lhe editor of tha
NoiUncftt'rn Larcet,in suggestive article
on lhe iled cal Aspect ot Inebriety says:
'The c?cc relationship of insanity, epilepsy,
and inei rietv is strongly shown by tha re
markable maimer ia whicb, through hered
ity, one Sorm of-' disease may pas into
aitotl er, a- where drunkenness in- one gen
eration is followed by epilepsy or insanity in
thefcucced ng Renerationi It U this in
evitable n?re or brain dtterioration on the
part of thoof a trevious gxneration who
indulged in akrthcli s lvt rages and became
parents, which undoubtedly would, if care
ful invetigaticu ; should be-made, account
for the presence therein of maay at the prea
enttime of thowby whom our insane asy
lums and hospitals are overcrowded. The
drink evil inolvcs not only these immedi
ately connected with the urinker here and
now, lut leaves a fearful legacy of pniTerlng
and incompetency .to futurogeuwratioua
A Message From Africa.
Dishop Crowih- r, of th Nizer Mission, h.n
receivtni from tlw .Voh.unmedi n. Emir of
Nuje, West Africa, this nv?sce: "It is not
long matter; it is about tarasa (ram1.
Lnrass. barasa. barasa! It has ruinod our
country; it I as ruined our people vv ry much;
it has made our. jeope-uiad. I beg jou.
Mahmi Kipo, dou't forget th-s writing, lv
rauso we all beg tb. they sbcu'.d beg the
English Queen 10 jTjveit "bringing Larusa
iuto this land."
Temperance New anil rfwtc
There is in East Delhi. X. Y., a teuiieranc
school with about .'Oiupiis.
One hundred and - sixty-five drunkards dii
every day. That was Horace Gieeley'a
estimate twenty years ego.-
Ten of the Baptist Associations of Penn
sylvania declare-i last year to prohiUtkm by
cont.tutional amendment..
One of the soecial feature of the Interna
tional Temperance Convention to bo held in
Melbourne, Australia,, is an exhib;t:oa of
temp ranee journalistic literature from all
parts of the world.
Mrs. Leavitt, who is now in Ceylon, write,!
there has been much more temjeranco work
done in that country than in most places in
India. Bands of lloie are- common ana
there are some total. altinnc societies of
adult men.
The petition being . prepired by tSo tem
perance women of tngiand, for presentation
to the Queen, asking . that the bar-rooms be
closed on Sunday, already weighs several
hundred pounds, aud .contains -nearly a mill
ion signatures.
In 18S0 as many as 2"J.3G4 soldiers in tba
British army weie tiuod for drui.kenneas,
about half of them Iwing fiued. more than
once. In addition, 1 4 l'J men were punished
by court-martial for being drunk ou duty,
and I77i for simp'.e drunkenness-
'The saloonkeeper is alcohol's soMier: he ia
America's danger and disgrac-o. Do not, I
pray you, go o;f into Ih regions- of tbe ab
stract, and dream of the possible saloon
keeper the law abid.ng citizen, engaged ic
licit Iwirtering, honest and houor:ib4 in bU
dealings with his customers. Study him id
actual life." Dislup Ireland
Mr. Lang, .for --thirty year jailor of
Simcoo county, Ontario, in a I ng letttr
detailing his "txperiein e. states that nint
tenths of the inmtes of the jail found their
way there through, the u eot LaXoxicant&.
The fourth weeU of November H set apart
by the Kight Worthy Grand Lodge of CjooI
1 emptors as -Missionary Week, throughout
the order. Each lodge is urged to boid au
open meeting and to uo ail in its power to
advance the interests of the organization.
Envy is blind..
Least said, soonest mended.
Those who excel will succeed.
Upright walking is sure walking.
Method will teach you to win time.
Imagination., never disturbs existing
facts.
There in no- virtue ia a promise un'.ll it
ia redeemed..
Many weaknesses of human nature an
distorted virtues.
The wisest fe.lows we think are thos
who agree with us.
Contentment decs not demand condi-.
tions, it makes them.
Now is al wars the very best time it
wo will only make it so.
As you learn, teach; as you get, git-
as you receive, distribute.
Whistling doesn't make the lococr
tive go, it is-the silent steam.
The ups and downs of life arc bctte
ihan being down all the time.
A little knowledge wisely used is bet
ter than all knowledge disused.
To be really yourself you nri be
different from those around you.
Excessive labor is wrong, but judi
cious labor ia the safety valve ot life.
3Ian may growl, grumble acxi fight,
but it has no effect upon natural right.
Falsehood can, make the best spurt,
but truth can do the steadiest trottir.
Fashion is only gold front jewelry, it
may appear well, but the value is no:
there.
iSlancler is a slime which envious peo
ple throw on others better than them
selves. It ia good to put a bother away over
night.
It all straightens out 111 th
morning.
Knowledge, like money, increases out
responsibility in proportion to the
amount obtained.
Help somebody worse oH than jour
selves, and you will find you are better
oil than you fancied.
If a man cannot attain to the length
of his wishes, he may have his remedy
oy cutting tnem snorter.
"What a careless, even deportment hath
our borrower I "What contempt for
money, accounting it yours and mine
.specially) no better than dross!
Evory attempt to make others happy,
every sia left behind, every temptation
trampled under foot, every step forward
,n the cause of what U good, is. a step
nearer to heaven.
RELIGIOUS READIK&
A S.ibbath In the Mountain
ArrT frS"" ,h' fr'uoi ot th Kiuti! . "..
A?-r from the N .U.Mb tfern? -Who
voice tolay in w. rh!! .!
m ith juU! ,r.t n An of Km ' J
uone ou a
RttbeJ in
Bttbed in a fl--1 of rwlend-nt Iih
W itb lie glittering rnk of wmu',.
W o gather for mom in - rra. f -
Thou ;b mIl my our ronregAlKa u
bcrcvly exceeding tbe"two or lltJL-
The master minvelf Is there.
Hi pealin organ proeMiM orr m
preacter'a voice is heard. '
Our cnorisvr's paUn cn thU iearlo
Js tb.t of tfce happy t.:ri; "Jl
Our mu:c the nund of the rusHn-'
Pouring dovn from fbe nowy hilu
As each its appointed work fu!fi.
leaping uo-vn through tbe flu
And the wonderful works f
teach
7 'if-r-
ilore tnin thenrisest ar.d best ctj'..! rr
Or the touzu of tbe learne.1 teli.
Thrmh t Kat cot ( -1 - .
j .11.11 inTjti arr-r
Tbero wa -nc a dsy. we know
v nen ir.e bi:i n rc-undUvi fir. wrs;i
...... mo - v . ' - , wiu in 1 1 1 1 V 1 ' I.
jiui wm-a in i:re nt the I.;vt greit
All tnat is evil ratsnt pass away.
daj
xjo we uot iiOjiQU it- IIJOUJ tin n-
Emblem of all that i j.un an I bru-' t
rointing is to a world of light,
And a glwry that te er d:.
evf
XJvirig CIosto rtw.
The Rev. Dr. T. I Cuvkr. i rr
avpi jt.vbiii.i. iav: "11 JThi t v ,
that we g iin freh supp! es of ttrpn j"l
s.tre;.gth of yotrday wdi no! f.i f r.
day, any more tia.i y:erdav" i.j ,3
susuin me if I Beg?ect.l to eat inv lr atf,J
this morning.. God mnnsib.il w- .j,. i
kepttn c Tisiant drn-ndnc,. th-rvr vl
metrs out s:rngth equal to the dar. ' Ti
manna mut fad frtsa every m'm.r-" Lori"
Civeus.i.iy ly day our flaily bni.
Chri-tian cn liv-on a:i oMexrvti r-errVa
old prmi ml- 10 G1 ia yar
or on tbe Divine h-:p that m fumiwi io
l.im in a past en.erg?nT. A irw P 4
requires a new an 1 i!nml;-e iijt.-r.M-x,-
of the Divine Ud. Tue Ci li.tiai o:' Li ,?
ct a may once have liren beatthv an 1 ,'r
they . 1 u live n-ar t (SmI, fi-j'nl
FpKW -d Item ousrof His mouth.
"Security d,Hends ujon livir- do to
Jesus. '1 he s K1 ier who ke pa in 'th ru t
on lhe man h. and behind ib ra-.p r: tr.
nig the Lsnuli. is comm-jnly sale: t! e t-tn-"
giersarear t to tie picked u l.vt!,n,.n,T'
To this latter c3, in rur c ufvbu.
the cau!ties nnd dicrace;ul Op-.iti .t
which so ofu-n aKK:k and ciiiine u.
thisclisof backsliders axe th. i.it
timsoftbe tercuur tha men ln-Tr
pecuniary tiuv. ar.d the weak-kn-i t43ji
servers woo sacturab in tiai cf hirdpr
nre, ai.d . thoM d-tttrs w
slip awav from O.jd's wr-L5,i
through broken PjM.itos, rr. 1
the vctarifs cf- se.'f-induli-H. -srUi ar
mos-tlr found ia tbe haunts of Van::- Fxir'
Drilling away from (Jod,-tncy la!I tnf 1
bands of the A ivtrary. No?d a Chrij.i
ever slio or s-tuniblef Xel be er: w;i i?t
thedar k, or loe the roll of h:s ai;rarvi-;
No; not if he livs cl -se to Clirt t. -i c. x
that the Shj hls eye is ever on l
tie light of Christ's conntenano? i;:uiu.?i
hii path, and t Almighty ami t-T
within reach. -. Brother, if you rr 1 i-ver Jv.
Christ it is not U-cauo ti dr:-t-itj
oway, or bidd n Hiuiv!t frr.in u i'isi
causj we have been drawn awav frioi Ila."
Until ?I:WYkIch i Voit-.?
'Whnt a ter icni pr.iyer-mctUr;;.'" xl
John Brent tah: wife at hal." j-t -ih? it
1 eceat Tl.ursdny evening. i"in ghd :- ct
lack to mv own lntle h-crfal tn Ti
ministers rrfnarks ner as lon as u. "t-rvl
law. Denc-jo - lVul went ovt-r tb .
ground, with a few jroy va-lt-on Vs.
I .an Z' Ion rtammered .and bluad ivl ti:i :;
a rv 1 i f when be sat d-w.i. Mr.
sal 1 the sarae thtng h h il forth lv
Iwentv-live yturs; at l-nt I 5. pt v.i!iL
I couldn't h-or it all. Mrs. ti;i tvrcl
n few prim tiff- wo-ds. jut ts Umi.i i
t'loirrht de must. Use 3 -rain 1 cLuu-L m ra
hors kent ap a rontiMil'sdenrv. He sri
were be same ol 1 dracv jhs. JfOi-r-skelter.
anywhere, without :ny Md rmuc
to them. The pnusas were, th nvt lr q-tt
part of tbo mH-tiiig and I Uli-v a:j
oul they were tho mot i nrnwvf. If
are to have a prayer-mc-tiMtr, why act Lave
one? 1 don't 'ike bo much talk."1
"Now. John." aid Mrs. Brent, i-:v di'
fereuily we look at thmzsr I tb.T:j!.t ;
one of tho l-o.t pyayer meting w- -vr at
tended. The min sterK tal i wa uhat I
noededL 1 bad teen worrr I a!l "lhe wk.
and what he told us aboui trutinx in t d ia
l.ttle things Stttd. roy caso. I ws s-'T
when be clos-.-d. his BiU and sai l, TtJ
meeting is oi-n fer others.1
"feacon I'a a!'. rt msi k. on th nmo -b-jt'Ciinteietrtl
reexc-o-lin5:y, r.r 1LmU
had many trirjs and OjiiM pk ln nMi
wience. As Co Brotbet Lnng-Ua, be --ml
so much in erj-n-6t tliat 1 did cot notr
whether he MutKlered w not. 1 tlitk
ing or my own shortcomings.
'The Mingy were old. to bo scr. I ut fer
tliat very reason thy touchel my hart. I
"never enj yel incinz He Iealeth me a I
1 -li 1 tonights 1'eihatal be!pl to makeit
.Mricgy, bat the ur.ic was ia my sor
jail thnt. .toth- young jri.la I tvr
: aw t!i-m .K attentive ard r;aieL Uany
: them reieated versus which t-epmed V m
very fitting. One-of them told nv afr
church that he had: ec.dHi this night to be-
meetitjg to me!" LUvI Jen I!oLi.
Lf-fit Urea king.
Iikea miKhtv array,
iloves ti-e Churth of Ooi:
Brot tiers, we are treading
Whro th Mints havo trol
We 1. re not divid. i,
All en txly we.
One in h -jx. in d' urine,
O? in Chiiiiy."
Tw midnight hn pnl! Th- iU t
tbatL The long ui:dw-turbol j-.u'iil-r fJ
at
tho Church is br- ke u S ?n:s bav..-sn 1 -
thaVueulied dreimirsto U-coii. fc"f
era. All through tbe o.n.p tLt-ra ja u
life'
We have beard a Chaplain t'll cf hav. u
biuuackl with his trig i-le ntou to :
MeLt, eneh &U;er wrapr! :
but With liOihmg oiter him but LtuJ,
cioudyky. Eirlv tbo wxi n"irf
aro.-e. ar.d all ovtr tbe fU-Ul n re '
mounds like new ro tde grave. ea-i " ' ' ,
with a drperv of ifwy su
fialWa two cr three inches dp
Vlii'-U 3"
aight. and covertd every s c-ej-ia v.
if in the windinsr-sheet of dtti.
whik he was errin!? unon th- trn
tacle, here and tbre a man wot.-.d J1
shake himself, and stand forti. ia nw-T
amu.meat at the sijht- It was l.
urrecticn-so ae. and failed noX to mass
impression 140a tbe Uhoider. .
Bo the Cburcbe have been I"Pr
slumbering amid tbe frost of "-T
that have well nigh filled tbam to the be n .
and tbe world ha seen more snw-c-v n.
craves than beacon fire! .
But rjaw-thank Cod:-tbe diy
An alirm has sounded all along tbe W -Tbe
sleep-rs bestir trmlv.
Camp-Melting. Higherdi'e Litr4tare. , nj
linesb Conventions, Union Evanse--forts,
and Consecration meetings rre.
apondingin a resurrectlon-Lfd ofd-
ad tireless enertry. , rr.H
Header our God is marching a
you join the aggrea ive camplpj'
by and by turn to a triumphal r' ,
honor of the King of Kinf Awake-arc.
thyself! No room for dreamer ia a
that ia to be conquered for Lnuna- w
prayer for telp; one almbraa
bod; ona act of appropriation of tje
and the Ufa of your ptabx"-'
breaks to the..-P.ev. S. It Putt, A.