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Don't Give Up, But Try"

A gentleman travelling in the northern
part of Ireland heard the voice Of children,
and stopped to listen.
Finding the sound came from a small
building used as school house, he drew
near; as the door was open he went in and
listened to the words the boys were spelling.
One little fellow stood apart, looking very
sad.
"Why does that boy stand there p asked
the gentleman.
"0h, he is good for nothing" replied the
teacher. "ThereS nothing in him. l can
make nothing of him. He is the most stupid
boy in school.
The gentleman was surprised at this an
swer. He saw that the teacher was so stern
and rough that the younger and more timid
were nearly crushed. After few words to
them, placing his hands on the noble brow
of the little fellow who stood apart, he said
"0ne of these days you may be a fine
scholar; don't give up; try, my boy, try"
The boy soul was aroused His sleeping
mind awoke. A new purpose was formed.
From that hour he became anxious to excel.
And he did become fine scholar, and the
author of well-known commentary on the
Bible; great and good man, beloved and
honored. 1t was DR.. Adam Clarke.
The secret of his success is worth know
ing: "Don't give up; but try my boy, try"
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Ancient Population.

Mr.. George May Powell, of the Oriental
Typographical Corps lin paper on solve
Trees" recently prepared and read by him
as Chairman of the Forest Committee of the
American Institute,) has, perhaps, furnished
the key to a mystery in both sacred and
secular history. He shows, from his per-
sonal observation of the olive industry in
Syria, that low average yield of oil is 500
gallons per acre. Consequently, as the
Wholesale price of gallon of olive oil ex
ceeds that of bushel of wheat, and the av-
ersge yield of wheat here is not more than
ten bushels per acre, an acre of olive trees,
at these relative rates, is more than equal to
fifty acres in the great standard industry of
wheat growing Versus Colenso, he argues
from this that olive culture and commerce
would alone account for the great number of
cities recorded in the Bible, and the density
of population of the ancient East.
If he is correct in his conclusions, he has
rendered service to archaeology. The idea
is attracting attention.
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New Every Morning.

Here is an utterance that has the sun
beam in it: "The Lords mercics are new
every morning" What an assurance this is
to carry with US in cur way faring through
this world The future is always dark to
us. The shadows brood over it. A veil
hides it from our sight. What is under the
shadows, what is behind the veil, what is ad-
vancing out of the impervious mist, none of
US can know. We have no anxious question
to ask. This is enough for all that is COM
ing: "The Lords merces ale new every
morning" The morning yet to break upon
us may be heavy with storm. No matter
the new mercies will not fail. Come, live a
comforted, happy and thankful life! Don't
borrow trouble. Don't be cast down with
care or work. Take up each day as it comes.
certain of this, that whatever it lays upon
you to do or bear, it will bring new mercies
for new deeds A. L. Stone, d. d.
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English Social Cowardice.

A London correspondent of the New York
San writes: 81 suppose all my English
friends will feel outraged by it, but the truth
compes me to say that in some respects, the
English people are the greatest towards in
the world. Physical danger and suffering
they will encounter readily enough, but ridi-
cule and public disapprobation have terror
for them which they dare not face. One OF
the most charming Englishmen l ever met
was narrating to me only day or two ago
how young American, common friend to
both of us, used to wear, when he'tirst came
to London, Scotch cap in the street, and ne
finally was obliged to tell him that unless he
put on the orthodox stove-pipe hat he could
not accompany him. 1t seems that etiquette
forbids gentleman to appear in public with
any other head gear than the stove pipe
aforesaid, and my English friend dared not
countenance contravention of the law. A
gallant Captain of the Queens body guard,
to whom l related the matter, sustained his
countryman, and declared that he himself,
although of profession which requires cour-
age as it's first essential, would not venture
to show himself in Bond Street or the Park
in soft felt hat.
pursuing my inquiries, I nave found that
similar tyranny prevails in innumerabe
respects. Mr.. Gladstone is reported to have
said that Cabinet Minister might better
commit any blunder rather than have his
front door opened by maid servant. Gus.
tom demands that man shall be employed
for that duty, and whoever infringes the GUS
tom becomes an outcast at once. SO, too,
the carrying of parcels in the street by gen.
tlemen or ladies is forbidden, and have no
doubt been set down as lunatic by shop
keepers many time, because would insist
on taking home my purchases in my own
hands. | believe an exception is made IN
the case of books, provided they be not
wrapped up in paper. These may be carried
without loss of caste, but everything else is
mark of infamy. To walk with the coat IN
buttoned in front is likewise improper, and lie
regarded very much as walking without any
coat at all. Nor may gentleman, not in
business, wear sack coat in London. No
matter how hot the weather may be, his out
err garment must be frock coat buttoned up
as | have mentioned. Only in the country,
and while travelling, is the luxury of loose
ness and comfort permitted"
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The Exact Truth,

Two young masons were building a orlcK
wall-the front wall of high house. One
of them, in placing brick, discovered that
it was little thicker on one side than on
the other.
His companion advised him to throw 1t
out. "It will make your wall untrue, Ben,
said he.
"Pooh!" answered Ben; what difference
will such trife as that make? You're too
particular"
"My mother" replied he, taught me
that the truth is TRUTH and even so little
an untruth is lie, and lie is no trife."
CO." said Ben, "that's all very we'll; but
l am not lying, and have no intention of DO,
ing So"
Every true, but you make your wall tel
lie; and l have somewhere read that a lie
in ones work, like a lie in his character, viii
show itself sooner or later, and bring harm
if not ruin.
"I'll risk it, in this case," answered Ben:
and he worked away, laying more bricks, anc
carrying the wall up higher, till the close Of
the day, when they qui: work and went home
The next morning they went to resume
their work, when, behold, the lie had wrought
out the result of all lies The wall getting
little slant from the untrue brick, had go
more and more untrue as it got higher, ant
at last in the night had toppled over, oblig
ing the masons to do all their work over again
Just so with ever so little an untruth II
your character; it grows more and more un
true if you permit it to remain, till it brings
sorrow and ruin. Tell, act, and live the ex
act truth always.
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u ICHMOND AND DANVILLE RAILROAD
IL On and after MARCH 49, 1875, the train

on this road will run daily as follows: 3.
| TRAIN No. 1-CHARLoTTE EXPRESS, Westward
Leaves Rict mond at 5:08 q. M; leaves Burkeville
at S:25 q. m leaves Dundee at 1856 p. M leave.
Danville at p. M; leaves Greensboro at 1897 M
leaves Salisbury at 6:46 p. arrives at Airline
Junction a. $3.50 p M; arrives at Charlotte at $3.50
p. m. .f
TRAIN No 2-NEw YORK and NEW ORLEANS
EXPRESS, Eastward-Leaves Charlotte at 8. So I'm.
leaves Airline Junction at 800 M; leaves Sails
bury at ll.3S a. M; lie yes Greensboro at 2. 16 D.
M; leaves Danvile at 448 p. M; leaves Dundee al
457 p. m leaves Burkeville at 9:17 p. m. arrives
at Richmond at 11:49 p m.
TRAIN No. s.-THRoUGH MAIL, Westward
Leave Richmond at 1888 p. M; leave Burkeville
at AL p. M; leaves Dundee at 1926 D. M; leaves
Danville at 9:28 p. M. leaves Greensboro at r. &c
a. M; leaves Salisbury at 1858 a. NJ; leaves Air.
Line Junction at 705 M, arrives at Charlotte al
7:10 a. m.
TRAIN No. 4-THRoUeH MAIL, Eastward
Leaves Charlotte at 9.23 p. M leaves Air Line
Junction at 80 p. leaves Salisbury at ~ ~ o.
m leaves Greensboro at $3.50 a. M; leaves Dan.
vile at $40 a. NJ; leaves Dundee at $50 a. m.
leaves Burkeville at 1885 q. M; arrives at Rich.
mond 222 p. m.
TRAIN No. 5.-LYNoHBURG PASSENGER. West.
ward-Leaves Richmond at 8 a. M. leave Burke.
vile at l:20 D. m; arrives at Lynchburg at 42O p M
TRAIN No. 6.-BURKEvILLE ACcoMMoDATION.-
Eastward.-Leaves Burkeville at A. 43 a. m; arrives
at Richmond at sos a. m.
All through trains connect at Richmond and Dan.
vile with trains on the Richmond Fredericksburg 4
Potomac railroad, and Washington City, Virginia
Midland and Great Southern railroad, to and from
Washington, Bal imore, Philadelphia, and N. York.
Trains Nos. and 4 connect at Richmond with
the Richmond, YORK River and Chesapeake railroad
trains to and from Baltimore and all eastern points
Trains Nos. 2 and connect at Charlotte with
trains on the Atlanta and Richmond Airline rail.
road to and from Greenville, Atlanta Montgomery,
Mobile, Pensacola, New Orleans, and all South
western points. trsy
Trains Nos 8 and connect at Charlotte with the
Charlotte, Columbia, Atlanta railroad for Columbia
Augusta, Savannah, Tallahassee, sS( all southern
points.
Train No. connects at Burkevie with the At.
lsntic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad from Lynch.
burg. Chattanooga, and all Southwestern points.
THROUGH TICKETS to all points South and
West, and baggage checked through
Unbroken gauge from Richmond to New Orleans.
Pullman palace-car through from New Orleans
to New York lala 1tn ta
T. M. R. TALCOTT,
Engineer and superintendent.
II. T. DOUGLASS Master Transportation.
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practical affairs of life; they have learned
few lessons of self-control; they have no
power of routine work, no adaptability to the
requirements of their circumstances, and no
wonder they clamor for another and wider
sphere. The sphere they really want is ex
actly the one for the duties of which they
have not been trained. The fault of all this
lies largely with mothers, who, remembering
the struggles and narrowness and poverty OF
their early married lives, wish to shield
their daughters from what themselves have
suffered, as if pain and poverty and suffering
and struggling were not Gods chosen means
of developing whatever is nObleSt and sweet
est and grandest in the human soul.
To many an intelligent and far-seeing
mother the truth has been unfolded that by
dihgent training of her daughters in gracious
household ways, while yet they are in girl
hood, such powers of mind, such mastery OF
self, such maturity and balance of judgment
and faculty may be developed in them as will
prepare them, in manner, for whatever
may be before them; to adorn high position
with honor, or to fill an humble one with
fidelity. It is not too much to say that if the
time of girls, between the ages of twelve and
twenty, that is frittered away in the acqui
sition of empty accomplishments, which serve
only to gid with Aeeting brightness the few
months or years that elapse between leaving
school and getting husband, were sedulous
ly devoted to mastering some, one trade, art
or valuable accomplishment, there would BE-
few women in the next decade that would
complain of having no way of making liv
ing. The wife who knows all her husband;
business, and who is his partner In every
thing, often becomes capable, by reason Of
her very companionship with him, should
death remove him from her side, of taking
ND the broken thread, and carrying on tC
completion the plans he laid, and realizing
for her children the hopes he cherished
Especially is this true when, in early life
under the training of judiciOus and not toe
fond mother, she has learned to exercise the
virtues of sell, denial, obedience, and cheerful
submission to the daily requirements Of duty
Enlargement of the sphere of woman mus
come from within, and not from Without
By so much as she becomes wiser, nebler
more helpful, in the relations of wife, mother
daughter, sister, by SO much will her power
for success be increased, and her resources
be multiplicity Y. Tribune.
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D I & E C T O R Y
Church in the United States.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

The General Assembly will meet at ST. Louis, Mo,
On the third Thursday of May, 1875, at II A. NJ
CLERKS.
REV. JOSEPH R. WILSON, ID. D., STATED CLERK,
REV. WILLIAM BROWN. D. D, PERMANENT cIEsx,
Va
The Stated Clerk is the Treasurer of the
General Assembly.
TRUSTEES
HoS. JAMES HEMPHILL, PREsIDzsr Chester, S. @.
JOS. WILSON, VICE President, Charlotte, N. a.
JESSE H. LINDSAY, Esq, SECRETARY and TREAsuRER
Greensboro N. g.
sUsTENTATIoN.
REV. J. LEIGHTON WILSON, d. D.. SECRETARY.
REV RICHARD McILwAINE, Coordinate sEoHE.
TARY and TREASURER, Columbia, ). q.
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
REV. ]. LEIGHTON WILSON, d. D., SECRETARY
RIv RicHaRD McILwAINE, Co. ordinate srcRxrA-
BY and rREAsuRER Columbia, s. q.
PUBLICATION.
REV. E. THOMPSON BAIRD, D. D.. SECRETARY, Rich.
@. GENNET, Esq, TREASURER, Richmond. Va.
EDUCATION.
Rev. JNo. N wADDELL, d. D.. SECRETARY, Mem
JAMES ELDER, TREAsuSEA, Memphis, Tenn.
Applications TO the Executive Committee for aid are
utive Committees for their approval and for
warded by them to the Assembly's Committees
COLLECTIONS
The General Assembly has appointed the following col
lections TO be taken up annually in all the churches
For Sustentation On the first Sabbath in January.
For Publication On the first Sabbath in March
For Foreign Missions: On the first Sabbath In May.
For the Relief Disabled Ministers and the Widows
Orphans of Minister'S On the first sabbath
in July
For Evangelistc Work: On the first Sabbath in Sep
TENDER
For Education: On the first Sabbath in November.
In where il is highly nconvenent to take up col
lectons these days, they shall be taken up
possible thereafter.
The Assembly recommends the churches that they
adopt the apostolic plan OF taking weekly collections
and that the amounts thus collected be appropriated
the above named objects. when local OBJ
jecs in such proportion the church session may decide
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A GOLDEN CANDLEsTIcK-Ad discovery of
some interest has recently been made at GAIA,
in the old mosque Of that city, which was
once Jewish synagogue. But on one of
the marble columns of this mosque is beau
tifully executed model of the golden candle
stick of the temple. 1t resembles very ouch
the one on the arch of Titus at Rome; only
this one is surrounded with wreath as if
trimmed for some festive occasion, perhaps
the feast of tabernaces. 1t has the seven
branches with candles burning in the sockets
The knife of sacrifice hangs from one of the
branches, and some other instrument from
another branch on the opposite side. The
name of Babbi Hanna, son of Yoseph- John,
the son of Joseph-in old Hebrew, inscribed
below on the same column.
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Aunsehnla aEntds.
The Training of Girls.

In the core of the human heart, whether
that heart throbs in a masculine or femi-
nine bosom, is che love of home; and in the
centre of home, its soul and light is woman.
These are fundamental truths, bottom facts,
which underlie the framework of society, on
which it rests.
There has been great deal said and writ
ten about charging the sphere of woman,
opening new avenues to her ambition, indus
try, success, which is very well; but the
wise ones who talk of these matters do not
propose to effect what cannot, in the nature
of things, be done-change the sphere of
woman. God has marked the boundaries in
a manner unmistakable. She is the mother,
the wife, the hOme-keeper; and however
widely her influence may radiate, however
large the circumference she may illuminate,
its central point is the hearth-stOne, the era
die, the home.
IF we take the social relations in their
natural order, we find that the duties Of wife
come first, and afterwards, growing out of
these, the love and duties of the mother
The wife, by divine appointment, is the
guardian of her husbands honor, the JOY of
his Preside, his "help meet in all the va
ried labors of life. This surely does not
mean that she is to sit idly by and simply
enjoy the rewards of his toll; that she Is
only to adorn as q fgure-head the establish
ment at the head of which he places her, and
wear hOnors gracefully she has done nothing
to earn. Yet how many young ladies look
for Just this in marriage and nothing more;
how many mothers covet no other wedlock
for their daughters than this; how many
men look on women with just this idea OF
their usefulness. But how can girl be
trained with special reference to becoming
wife and mother, and yet be made capable of
supporting herself Independently of imme-
date masculine aid, if SO circumstances de-
mand of her? The problem is being worked
out in ten thousand quiet American homes,
where the troublesome question of kitchen
help has not yet disturbed the domestic
peace, where the boys and girls, as they in
crease in strength and knowledge, are taught
to DO their part, at first small, bat ever grow
ing larger, in the labors of the household
It was this home training that made New
England women of the last generation so
wonderfully efficient, and able to turn their
hands to almost everything required of
them. Mothers are apt to feel that if their
children are not pouring over school books
their education is being neglected; but
child who is taught how to perform stated
tasks of everyday requirement, with fidelity,
with diligence, with patience, with cheerful
ness, is being as really educated in what is
necessary to success in life as one kept con-
stantly drudging over arithmetic and geog
rlphy.
The great masses of young and middle.
aged women now clamOring for something to
do by which they can earn bread, were not
taught in their girlhoOd to do anything use
ful-to make bread, wash dishes, sweep
floors, or do their own seBing-and their
Judgment has never been developed in the
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Feeding the Sick.

Sad mistakes are made by hundreds of
well-meaning folks in their method of admin
istering nourishment to invalids. 1t is the
custom to keep the delicacies intended to
tempt their appetites constantly within their
reach. The result is, that instead of feeling
any desire for the jellies, broths, etc, thus
obtruded upon their notice, the sight of them
creates loathing and disgust. Sick people
should never be haunted with food in this
way. Even persons in health would lose
their relish for choice dishes, if condemned
to live in larder, surrounded night and day
with all the dainties of the season. If you
have anything rare and delicious for your
patient, surprise him with it. A pleasant
surprise is good tonic, and you may excite
his palate by springing refreshing rarity
upon him unexpectedly. Never baud sick
man pile of eatables, telling him that you
expect him to devour the whole of it, Feed
him on the n6nitesimal plan, with fairy NOR
sells; and as soon as he has taken what he
requires, remove the remainder. In visiting
sick rooms, how often one finds bowls of ar
rowroot and sage, dabs of jelly, cups of beef
tea, fragments Of dry toast, slices OF oranges,
and the like, mixed in among black draughts,
boxes of pills, plasters, leeches, and other
denominations of the healing art" No won
der the pale and lauguid inmates have no
appetite.
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Modern Dress and Manners.

1t is a bad sign when men cease to respect
women of their own or, indeed, of any class;
but the women themselves are to blame for
the intolerably fippant and impertinent tone
pervading young society. We do not want
to 90 back to the formalities of Sir Charles
Grandson, and there is winning charm in
naturalness not to be had from the most per
fected artifciality. Nevertheless, slight
return to Old world forms Of courtesy, a lit
tie dash of that stately reverence of speech
and demeanor which cur forefathers exag-
gerated into pedantry, would be gain il
times when the young men give, as their
greatest praise of a girl, There is no non
sense about her, meaning no baShfulness, no
reserve, no girlish shrinking modesty; while
the girls justify the compliment by calling
the young men " dear boys and som etimes
when they have less nonsense even than
usual, and desire a closer assimilation of
style, sold men.
This is the form which is taught and
held up for admiration in the ladies novels of
the day; and it s impossible to exaggerate
the degree in which these writings have
tended to corrupt and degrade the sex who
chiefly write and read them. All these
things are patent. Patent, too, is the infer
ence that when woman, from no fault of
her own, falls into trouble, she suffers for the
mistakes and follies of her class and the
time. Personally she may be wholly blame
less; but with all these lines of demarcation
blurred, these distinctive characteristics con-
fused, it is almost inevitable that there
should be mistakes. Until we come to q
more ethereal condition of existence the bur-
den of self protection must, we fear, lie on
the women themselves. That burden is not
very heavy, and the penaDce it includes not
very bitter. 1t is only that modest women
must show what they are by series of neg
atives, and take care not to expose them
selves to misconstruction by an attractive
ness of out-of door dress, doubtful manner
of speech, and Bohemian bon hommie of
behavior to strangers which shift the labels,
mislead their companions, and end in the con-
fusion of a mistaken affinity, by which they
themselves are the greatest sufferers in the
end.-Saturdau Review.
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Home Life in England.

English home life in town or country has
a well-deserved reputation. No one, it
seems to me, has more faithfully or graph
cally portrayed it than Mr.. Anthony Troll.
lope. Oar experiences seemed like scenes
from his books. The differences between the
modes of living in England and America
seem slight when talked or written about,
yet there is a subtle something which, when
you experience it, makes you feel that you
are on English shores-at an English fire.
side. "Taking tea" in England with your
friends is very different from taking tea in
America. "Come in to tea with me to-mor-
row." says friend. If it is at country
house, you drop in informally about five
o'clock, and find the ladies of the house, and
sometimes the gentlemen, assembled in the
drawing room. Such scene rises in my
mind as l write long, -ceilinged draw
ing room, with windows at either end, the
one looking on to shady lawn, the other,
through stained glass windows, to an old
fashioned garden full of sunset glory. 1t is
early in the year; chill is in the air, so
that the open fireplace and burning logs
cheer us after our long drive. The room is
oak pannelled, hung with pictures, the fur
niture of several periods, quaint and modern
that pleasant combination which you are
sure to find in English drawing-rooms.-
There is the upright piano so commonly
used in England, with it's tall side Candida
bras; great chifonier; round table
strewn with new books and magazines of the
day. The kettle is on the hearth; near by,
1T small round table, sits the eldest daugh-
ter of the house-the dainty china and tea
urn before her. What could be more soci
able than the cup of tea we drink together
about that hospitable hearth ? We drink
our tea and look at the scene around US with
studying eyes-it is so English-So pleasant
so long to be remembered.