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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-10-18
then she said SO swectIy-ol,, | shall never

then she said SO swectly-oh, shall never
forget it.
"And what DO you think your dear
mother would say--how do you think
she would fccl-to know that her lit
Tie boy was guilty of such a disgusting habit
as this2' pointing TO the tcl-talc quid which
had vainly tried to hide beneath the seat.
| Il must leave now," she continued ;
but here is my card, and, if you come to
me most any evening shall be glad to see
you, and perhaps we may be of some ser
vice to each other
she gave me her little glovcd hand,
and to my dying day l shall never for
get, the sensation of that moment.
| could not bear to part with her; without
her thought | could do nothing-with her
could grow to mans cstatc-a man in the
trucst sense Of the word From that mo-
mcnt tobacco never passed my lips.
''As soon as | could summon courage T
| called upon the lady. We'll do rcmcm-
her how my heart beat rs | waited i'm the
elegant parlor for her to come down, and
how awkward felt as followed my guide
to her private sitting room. She got at cv-
cry point of my life, and before | babe her
! goodbye IL was arranged that should
spend two evenings of each week at her
house, and study on the occasion lust what
she though: best.
"No lover ever looked forward 10 the
meeting OF the mistress of his heart any
more ardently than did to these meetings
with my friend.
II grew careful of my persona. appear
ance, careful of my conversation, and
stroye III every way to be worthy of the no.
pic friendship Two years passed in this
oellght!ul nanncr-two years that made
me. My friend not only attended to my
studies, striving also all the while to sow
the right kind of spiritual seed, but she pro-
cured Tor ne business situation with a
friend of hers, where remain to this day.
Nobody but God knows what | owe tits
woman. During the last three months of
those two years noticed that she grew con-
stantly paleand thin; she never was BETRAYED
into speaking of herself Sometimes, when
l would ask her whether she felt worse
! than usual, she would reply:
'Oh, no! am only little tircd-that
is ALL"
"Onc evening she kept me by her sofa
much longer than was her custom, while
She arranged lessons, and laid out work, it
seemed to me, for months
"'Why 50 much tonight ~ incurred.
conscious that my heart achcd, and vaguely
suspccLing the cause.
because dear she answered, Il do not
want you to come for the next week, and
am anxious that you should have sufficient
work to anticipate as well as to keep YOU
busy. L think can trust you to he good
boy, john
81 think you can, ma'am, answered
almost sobbing.
'lf should sec your mother, my dear
DIoy, before long, what shall say to her
for you2'
"lhcn | knew all, and my grief had no
bounds. It's no use to go now. She died
two days after"
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-10-18
Tho Power of Kindness.

''Thcrc is one chapter in my lifc's his
tory that l have always kept locked in my
heart, said John IIaviand, as he faced the
little group in the paror; "but tonight
feel as if il was my duty to open it for your
inspection, and do it for the love of woman
for the love of a woman who made me
what am worthy to be, the husband of a
good woman"
"Why, Johnl" said Mrs. Haviland, soft
ly approaching-babc still had held tight to
her bOsom-''you frightcn me-"
"Lct's have the story" said the rest OF
the group, certain that something good
might be anticipated; and John commence
cd, Mt first little tmid, but gaining conf
dcncc as he proceeded.
"Whcn first came to New Y ork, at the
age of twelve years, to seek my fortune, |
call myself precious chap without dan
ger Of being accused of an unusual degree
of sclf-apprcciaion. l was quick to learn
everything, tho bad as well as the good
My employer used profanc language.
picked up the oaths that he dropped with a
mturalncss that surprised even myself
The boys in the Office all chewed tobacco.
This was a little the hardest job | ever at
tempted, but after two weeks of nausea ant
indcscribablc stomach wrenchlngs, came
off victorious, and could get away with my
paper a day with the best of en-"
''Truc, every word of It'll said the
speaker.
"Onc afternoon was sent with n note
from my employer to house in the upper
part of tho city. l hadn't anything to read,
but had plenty of tobacco, and with that
proposed to entertain myself, during the
two or three hours must spend in the pas
sage. For some distance | did not notice
who were beside me, but by-and-by lady
said, very softly and pleasantly: "Would
you please, little boy, be more careful l
AM going to party this AFTERNOON, and |
should hate to have my dress spoiled.
81 looked into her face. 1t was the
sweetest ever saw. Pale, earnest and loy-
ing, to my Doyish heart it was the face of
an angel"
"What did you say2" interrupted Mrs.
1Iaviland, her bright eyes filling with tears
as she saw how the memory of this beauti-
full woman affected her husband.
+ "Say There was very little / could
say. think all did for some time was to
look.
81 managed to dispose of the tobacco,
however, and wiped my mouth very care
A"iy OH VI "llCil L lCl0 CCltuln Blu bhW
and mentally commented upon.
''Have you mother, little boy2" she
next asked me in the same low tone.
No, ma'am, answered, and felt my
throat filling up, and knew must swal-
low mighty hard to keep from sobbing.
you have father, then, suppose ~
she kept on.
No, ma'am, no father
"Brothcrs and sistcrs2'
Neither, ma'am' ailg
erhcn the little boy is all alone in the
world2'
".All alone, ma'am.'
How long has his mother been dead q
and the dear woman looked away from my
face, and waited till could speak. IA
Two years, / answered. m
"And you loved her 2 came next. @
"Dearly, was all / could say. #
She was silent for moment, and
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-10-18
GIVE Hin A LIFT.

Give him a lift! don't kneel in prayer,
Nor mora: ize with his despair
The man is down. and his great neod
1s ready help, not PRAYER and Greet.
"Tis time whom tho wounds are washod an,
hoaled--
That the inward motive bo revealed
But now, whate'er the spirit DO,
Moro words are bat mockery.
Ono grain Of aid just now ia moro
10 him than tones Of sanity loro;
Pray, If you must in your heart,
But give him lift, give him a start.
Tho world ia full Of good advice,
or prayer, and praise, and preaching nico-
But the generous souls who aid mankind
AFRO scarce as gold and hard to find.
Give like q Christian-speak in deeds
A noble lifes tho best of creeds;
And he shall wear a royal crown
Who gives them lift when they arc down.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-10-18
Horses In Mexico.

Horses arc bred in great numbers at the
various hacicndas III the provinces. some of
tho largest estates having eighty or a hun
dred thousand cattle and fifteen or twenty
thousand mules and horses. The pasturago
is green all the year round, and the animals
receive no other food. They multiply as
the birds do, and with as little profit to their
owners. Generally speaking, they run
wild until wanted, when they are caught
with lasso, hoodwinked, and Immediately
mounted. For the first fifteen or twenty
minutes They exert their whole strength to
throw their rider, but finding their efforts
unavailing, patiently submit, and generally
give but little trouble aftcrward Owing
to their immense numbers, horses are sold
very cheap, the average price for an un-
broken herd being eight or ten dollars u
head, with but little demand at that. It
sometimes occurs that tho government pur-
chases few hundred for the army, but,
generally speaking, there arc very few oc-
casions when they can be sold, Mexican
horses, rs rule, arc not handsome, and
arc seldom more than fourteen hands high ;
still, they have nothing Of the peculiar
build of the pony about them. Fed en-
tirely upon grass, they yet endure more
fatigue and arc capable of maintaining a
rapid gate for a longer time than the grain
fed horses Of other lands. In the towns
and cities they receive the scanticst of care
and tho mcagercst allowance of food. Tied
up the whole day in the sitting courtyards,
they stand patiently awaiting their evening
meal. Frequently they are turned loose
together, when it requires the use of a lasso
to catch them. So familiar with this In
strlmcnt do they become that tho moment
tho animal feels the rope about its neck 1t
stands stock still, when without it It would
not suffer itself to be saddlcd OR bridlcd.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-10-18

lit Is proposed to erect u statue to
Lafayettein Druid Hill Park, Baltimore,
st a cost Of $4,000.
1T Is estimated that the people of
New York paid $30,O00,000 for home-
made lager beer last year.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-30
Replying TO IngersOll.

Apropos of Ingersoll and the itching de-
sire manifested by some clergymen to reply
to his blasphemous diatribes against Chris.
tianity, when silent contempt is all his flash
of abuse and generalities deserves, have
somewhere in my scrap book this anecdote /:
" An infdel and Christian minister be-
came involved in dispute on the subject
of the Christian religion, while travelling on
the cars. 1t continued for some time to the
annoyance of the other passengers and to
the especial disgust of plain-looking Irish
woman, who occupied the seat Immediately
before the disputants. After the infidel had
declared his disbelief of everything belong.
ing to Christianity, and had stated that so
far from being capable of immortality, man
dies like the horse or the pig or any other
ANIMAL and the clergyman was about to
reply, the Irish woman rose TO her feet,
turned and looked at the two. Her face was
flushed and her eyes ablaze with earnest
ness. With vigorous movement of her
head, she exclaimed in loud, ringing voice
to the clergyman Arrah, now, cannot ye
let the baste alone ? did he not say he was
pig, and don't ye know the more ye pull
his tail the louder he'll squale I? The effect
was immediate. The passengers shouted
with laughter the discounted infdel hung
his head, and for the rest of the journey he
held his tongue. Verbum sat Sapieni."-
| PRESBYTERIAN Banner.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-30
A Hundred Years Hence,

"All the same hundred years hence -
Do you really think so 1t may be all the
same to you, perhaps, though even that is by
10 means certain; but this thing that you do
to-day may have fruit that will work veal
or woe when century has rolled away. 1t
is not natural to consider ones unborn great
great-grandchildren very much. Most of us
think, If we do not say, "After us, the
deluge." But whether we care or do not
care, we may cause those great-great-grand.
children many tears or much Joy by some.
thing that we do or even say to-day. The
sins of the fathers are visited upon the chill.
dren through the generations, and so also
for their fathers virtues are the children re-
warded. Life is made up of little strands
braided together. Shall we be sure that
the one that is taken up to-day is Joined To
no otherr You choose between Esther and
Helen, and marry one of them. Assuredly
you should have the right Of choice, but YOU
cannot say it will be all the same a hundred
years hence. Even the same people will moi
be in the world, and therefore the same
deeds will not be done. Besides, what one
does in his own day sometimes influences all
the age. A helping hand held out when
it was needed to the discouraged inventor
has sometimes given the world inventions
for which the centuries are thankful. Is il
nothing to us now that our forefathers
signed the Declaration of Independence
When the deeds that are done affect nations
we can understand that it will not be the
same hundred years hence. We do not
understand quite SO well that our own char
acters and our own lives are yet influenced
even by the thoughts hidden in the souls Of
our progenitors, or that the shadows of any
wicked deed we may do may lie across the
path of some innocent man or woman hun
dred years hence when we are ashes.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-30
Beautiful Old Faces.

There is something very winsome in the
fair face and open countenance of a young
person who is Enthusiastically sincere and
pure and frank, who evidently is innocent
and guileless, and has a kind and gentle
spirit. One loves to look at such counte-
nance, and is prompt to praise it with hearty
enthusiasm. "What an attractive face ~
you say. at commands instant confidence.
There's no room for doubt there" Yet,
after all, the confidence which such face
inspires is limited 1t rests on hope rather
than on experience. That is the face OF one
who has never been tried. He is young
soldier of fine promise. But he never won
victory; because he was never in battle
No such restful confidence in his courage
and character is possible as in one whose
face bears the marks of struggle, of endur.
ance, OF triumph Innocence in contrast
with virtue is a blank page in contrast with
a page written over with strong, brave words
You may admire the texture and tone and
finish OF sheet of paper of unusual quality
and beauty; but you wouldn't find any such
enjoyment in receiving that sheet through
the mail with its surface unsullied, as you
would have in sheet covered with words of
courage and cheer from one who had been
tried and proved true, who had been weighed
in the balances and found not wanting. A
fair page of choice paper is a good start for
letter. but it is only start. 1t is very
well to have bright and pleasing face in
ones early years. 1t is great deal better
to have the impress of victory in the strug-
giles of life on ones face in the later wears
lie or she whose face doesn't grow beau.
tiful in growing older is to blame for the
failure.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-30
HumOrsOme Waits.

SAYS Giles, any wife and are two, yet
faith | know not why, sir" Quoth Jack,
You're ten, if | think true-she's one and
you're cipher"
The man who wrote that "nothing was
impossible never tried to find the pocket
in his wife's dress when il was hanging up
in the clothes-press.
"SAMBo, kin yo tell why dey inwaribly
takes de pennies from de chil'ren at de Sun
day-school ?" "Couse / kin. Dat is to get
de cents OBJ de meetin'.'
JOSH BILLINGS suggests that il man is
on his way to the woods to commit suicide,
and bull suddenly gives chase, the chances
are that he will run for his life.
An old bachelor said "There's more
jewelry worn nowadays than when was
young But there's one piece that always
admired which | don't often see now"
What is that 2" asked young lady, "A
thimble," was the reply.
A LITTLE girl at school read thus: The
widow lived on limbacy left by relative"
"What did you call that word ?" asked the
teacher; :" the word is legacy, not limbacy."
But" said the little girl, "my sister says
| must say limb, not leg"
A LAWYER was compelled to apologize to
the court. With stately dignity he rose in
his place and said "Your Honor is right
and am wrong, as Your Honor generally
IS" There was dazed look in the Judges
eye, and he hardly knew whether to feel
happy or not.
"SUpposE should work myself up to the
interrogation point ?" said beau to his
sweetheart. 81 shall respond with an ex.
clamation !" was the reply. We presume
If the old gentleman should come in about
that time, he would put a "stop" to that
kind of quotations.
"HERE," said farmer in Syracuse as he
exhibited broken jar to the manufacturer,
al packed this jar full OF butter, and the
jar split from top to bottom. Perhaps you
can explain the phenomenon" Oh, yes, |
can, was the ready reply; "the butter was
stronger than the jar"
A MEMBER of the rhetorical class In
certain college had just finished his decla-
nation when the professor said, "Mr. -,
do you suppose general would address his
soldiers in the manner you spoke that
piece 2" "Yes, sir, | do" was the reply,
:" if he was half scared to death"
AN lrishman in describing America, said;
" am told that you might roll England
thru it, an 1t wouldn't make dint in the
ground; there's fresh water oceans inside
that ye moight dround Old Ireland in; an'
as for Scotland, ye'd niver be able to find
1t out, except it might be by the smell Of
whiskey."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-30
How TO Find Him.

In the narrative of the days that followed
the first Easter there is suggestive food for
our thought in the weeks that follow our
Easter. If we have, indeed, realized that
our Christ is a living, not dead Christ, and
is to be found not in the tomb, but on the
street, in the garden, and by the roadside,
we have learned the first lesson of Easter
If we learn to look for him in the spirit of
those first disciples, we shall learn its second
lesson. To whom did he reveal himself in
the forty days after his resurrection To
weeping Mary; TO her who could not bear
the thought of a Christless life; to her who
was heart-broken at the thought of his de
parture. To the soul that cannot live with
out Christ Christ comes with comfort. To
the eleven met in the upper chamber to talk
of all that he had been to them, and all that
they had hoped from him; to the soul that
rejoices in Christian fellowship, Christ comes
bringing his own ineffable companionship.
To Thomas, skeptical Thomas yes, skep-
tical, but a reluctant skeptic who loved,
but could not hope nor believe; to him
whose prayer is, Help mine unbeief, he
comes to extort, by the vehemence of his
love, the cry, My Lord and my God to
the disciples walking to Emmaus, talking of
Christ and the hope which they had buried
him, and inviting to share their humble
hospitality the stranger whom unawares
they entertained. The disciple that well
comes the stranger for Christ's sake finds
Christ in the stranger when least he looks
for him. To the fishermen, returned to
their avocation, and toiling industriously at
that most prosaic of pursuits, fisherman s.,
he came unheralded, standing by the sea-
shore and providing fire for the wet and
food for the half famished. Honorable in
dustry is sometimes prayer that summons
Christ more quickly than chant of choir, or
intoned intercession of priest, or fragrant
incense. When we least look for Christ he
looks for us where we least look for him
he sometimes finds us. He delights in the
surprises of love. Look for him with Mary
in tears at absence, or with the ten in fel.
lowship in his name, or with Thomas in
sorrow of doubt, or with the two unknown
disciples in Christian hospitality, or with
the fishermen in hard work. And where
you least expect him there you may soonest
see him. Say not in thine heart, who shall
ascend into heaven (that is, to bring Christ
down from above) as though he were a
Saviour afar off or who shall descend into
the deep2 Chat is, to bring up Christ again
from the dead) as though he were to be
found in the past. But what saith it :
The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth,
and in thy heart. Christian Union.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-30
Evolution.

These men who talk of evolution claim an
infinity of time. | ask, How long since this
protoplasm developed into a turtle, the tur-
tie into monkey, or the monkey into a
man They admit there is no positive record
anywhere. Since human history began there
is no instance of any animal ascending to the
scale of man. If at all, it must have been
far back in the distant ages. Then | ask,
Why not give Christianity similar time 7
She is changing the face OF creation she is
Transforming sinners into saints, savages into
enlightened men. She took them naked,
rude, and uncultured, and has clothed,
taught, and refined them. She has taken
man, that bowed down TO stocks and stones,
and elevated him until he uses the world
as workshop, aud all elements as his in
struments; until he feels that he is son of
God and his vicegerent upon earth. Why
shall Christianity be called failure, because
it has not yet reached all the sons of men or
transformed them into sons of science
Give her at least as muchtime TO change mil
lions of savages into enlightened humanity,
millions of sinners into saints, as, according
to their own asking, it takes to change one
species into another. We promise that the
whole world shall be brought TO the foot of
the cross before the evolutionist shall find
even single monkey transformed into a
Bishop Simpson.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-30
Keep the Children at Home Nights.

Bring up child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he cannot reproach YOU
for the manner of his bringing up. When
night comes all good animals go TO their re-
pose none but sly and ferocious beasts are
now skulking round. No bird of good char
acter is abroad. The plants draw their
leaves closer together and sleep. The mias-
mas and grass that were rareiied and lifted
by the suns heat now condense and sink
with the mists and dews of evening The
night air is considered unhealthy. "Our
family are never troubled with billiousness, "
said lady, "and believe it is because we
never sit outdoors at night" A child is
hardly out of his mothers lap before he is
treated as an adult. Into his stomach is al
lowed to go all the food and drink, too, we
may add, that the adult stomach often re-
bells against, by becoming dyspeptic aud
feeble, aud he is suffered TO contract the
habit of being up late, being supposed to be
tough enough to endure the exercise and
excitement OF day heightened out by add
lug TO it part of the night. The night
is never too long at any time of the year for
the sleep of a healthy child, nor the day too
short to afford him all the play and exercise
he needs.
Our streets during the warm months
swarm at night with children of all ages.
They may be found roaming about until ten
and even much later. Some children are
permitted TO be out night after night for
weeks and months together. Such children
cannot grow as fast as children who get
their sleep at the proper time. The effects
of late hours may be seen in their iaded and
old looks. They become cross, fdgety,
nervous. They do not sleep the sweet sleep
of childhood They either drop into leaden
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-30

What is the great lesson of the mission
and use of prayer which we gather from
Jesus constant praying Is it not this,
that the inner life of the soul is in God; and
that it is through our constantly keeping
open our communications with him that we
truly live If we were mere objects, mere
things, like those which grow up in our gar.
dens if you were an elm tree standing in
yonder meadow, God would care for you
each Spring and each Autumn, each Summer
and each Winter would bring its own appro-
pirate blessing and under the faithful
agents of God, the sun, the dew, the rain,
the frost, the snow, you would grow up and
have no need of prayer. But you are not
of these. You go forth in the morning
into your strenuous life. The moment you
leave your threshold you dip into the cur
rents OF human thought and passion. Each
soul which comes into relation with yours
brings you message, a purpose, a move
ment OF its own. Some of these souls are
helpful TO you, many stand directly in your
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-30
C. w. SIMMONS g. SON,
BOSTON.
BOSTON.

w. E. ADAMS has opened,
in connection with his Hats
& Caps, Trunk Department,
where can be found Ladies
and Gents Trunks, Valises,
Ladies Bonnet Boxes, Satch-
els, Shawl Straps, etc, etc, in
all the different styles, grades
and prices, from the cheap
Packing Trunk to the best
Leather Saratoga Trunk.
Opposite the Court House,
Montpelier.