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Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1882-03-01
The Modern FIirt.'
[London Life.l

But while every hirt, perhaps
looks to marriage as her Ultimate
aim and object, there are many who
take continued delight in the va.
ried excitements OF the pursuit itself;
and preierring the light entanKle.
ment Of u warm and tender inter.
course to the binding letters of a
premature engagement, will try and
play many profiered love, be.
fore they find that their own has gone
from them into the keeping Of some
stronger woOer who has conquered
at last. These, of course, are the
most dangerous fiirts, who are point.
ed out as social offenders, because
they do not spare their powers of
drawing men from allegiance TO old,
and perhaps regretted, ties, and of
discoucerting premeditated family
arrangements; and no doubt they
must leave behind them some bro
ken hopes and wounded hearts along
their paths If pleasure and ways Of
plcasantness.
But, after all, snch rs these are
the perpetual penalties of the love
chase; and The men who may have
been even heartiessly Tilted BY "a
fiirt do not usually undergo any
long prutracted suffering, bit are
easily consolcd, like wounded heroes
10y the coincidence and sympathetic
affection Of some more tender heart
ed rival. But if the issue of her
game of courtship in which her
affections happen to he chiefly en-.
gagged, should go against the flirt,
she bears all the blame and meets
with little sympathy. The tongue
of scandal is unsparing in its moral
structures, and il she sinks beneath
the social storm, her rivals perhaps
rejoice over her discontinue; while
even her admirers, who used to fiat.
ter her, will miss her bright pres.
ence for day or two, and then for.
get her in the ceaseless whirl of
society.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1882-03-01

themselves to be going through q
process of cultivation. There is
comparatively small pleasure in
talking of books aud subjects con
nected with literature with an I'M.
cultured person, however he may
be in the habit of reading; While in
the presence Of cultivated men aud
women, almost the first word reveals
that the reading has been assimi.
lated aud become part of their
mental substance, SO 10 speak, and
there is felt at once q common
ground to move upon. and unspoken
understanding of each others point
of view.-Atlantic Monthly.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1882-03-01
EDITORS.

The man above all others in tile
world most entitled 10 conservation,
is an editor. No matter what he
publishes he is sure to make enemies,
and lose friends. Rejected contri-
butors dislike him, of course, and
the accepted contributor is often
lust as unreasonable, for after the
long suffering publisher has accept
ed article after article, until the
public is grooming under the load of
undgested ideas, and the editor
kindly requests us discontinuance
in the future of the ''fiOw of intel
lect"tD, he becomes offended, and
thinks him devoid of all taste aud
discrimination, and expresses him
self accordingly. -'t
An editor Is compelled to write
such articles IA will please all class.
es of people. He cannot crafty bis
own taste, or that of q few. II be
could. his life would be Compare
lively an easy one. He has to
dabble in politics, in religion, In
science, and in art. and Of eouree,
he will necessarily make enemies
aud create an opposing element bpe
that to he supposed before be has
started on the a|ipQssy, dsy(es9o
what is expecfsd OF bin, ana onle9s
he is q .cowaFtlly pOltroop, 81 -
fawner at tkS fect Of pq1g
| rnanfhliy do III duty ~
his opini6us iffespe 6elSe u nv q
politics. ''li ''' -
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1882-03-01
An italian Count Living in a Hut
San Antonio Express.

AS a Reporter OF The Express
was riding through the brush back
of San Pedro springs, yesterday
afternoon, he suddenly came upon
a small wigwam made OF bushes
aud twigs, with a fire burning to
one side, on which sat pot of cof
fee, the aroma Of which WAS sweet.
~ fragrant. On the ground, smok.
ing cigarette, WAS stretched a
tawny. eolored Italian, with violin
by his side. On inquiry, he stated
that he was the Count of Villa
Franco, exiled from his country for
his political opinions and had been
gaining u livelihood tor the past
three months in San Antonio by
his musical talents. He and his
wife, q beautiful woman, hardly
more than u girl, had constructed
this little hur, where they lived ID
perfect cOntebtment. So it seems
there are more counts in the city
than most people were aware OF.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1882-03-01

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Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1882-03-01
A Snake Story.
The Experience Of q Man Who Had Some
Dealings With Reptiles.

To get snake out of a bottle is
a tedious job; in whatever position
il is turned, the head will I've direct.
" upward, so that the only way TO
induce him TO come ont is to place
the bottle upright or nearly so;
even then the head is withdrawn on
the slightest alarm and the position
is by no means favorable to its
transference TO IA box. II the door
or opening of the latter will admit
it, the best plan is to put the bottle
nncorkea into the box, and let the
the snake crawl ont at its leisure;
first "chocking of" the bottle with
II wedge of paper or wood, lest IL
should roll over on the reptile, aud
fastening string TO 1t in order that
il may he removed without Difficult.
~ at the earliest possible opportnni-
~.
One of the most poisonous snakes
ever possessed WAS brought 10 me
in Il brandy bottle, and, after twist.
ing aud shaking and tapping it for
an hour without avail, | grew i'm.
patient. The tail just then hap.
pened To prctrude about halt an
inch, so | seized it with my fingers,
and. rapidly drawing the bottle
through the other hand, had the
reptile safely in my grip behind it's
death dealing jaws, now diStended
with anger. But the slide of my
snake box was shut over and /
could not draw it back with one
hand; so was obliged to let him
slip back into the bottle again.
Having set the box in order for the
new corners reception, once more
esSayed to lay hold of him by the
tail; but now, most provokingly, no
amount of maneuNeriug would brlug
that useful member To The top. An
other half hours unsuccessful ang-
ling converted my impaticnce into
desperation, and ut length, when ]
the mouth Of the bottle, | stuck my
finger M trrh!rSsly 10 try To secure
il.
This WAS hopeless, a. | might
have expected, hut it certainly did
cool my spine a little when dis
covered on attempting Ia Withdraw
it, that my finger WAS damned! l
pulled. wrenchUtf; and twisted 1t
with all my might, for the brute
WAS raising It's head. and its flicker
ing tongue was rapidly approaching
the unhappy digit thai n,oiuntari-
~ corkcd up ills prison. l gave a
final tug. the violence Of which
nearly dislocatcd my phaIanges; but
it was no use, and with II yell !
raised the bottle high in the air, in
tending to smash il on the end of
my bunk. distinctly tclt the
snake, momentarily Inverted, fall
on the end of my finger; but as |
flung my hand up the bottle slipped
off, and fell OH the deck behind me,
fortunately without breaking. BY
the time picked it up the snake
was half way out, kissing fnriOusly
with rage and fright, and had bnt
little time TO thrust it into the box
If had not been fiurricd, | should
probably have been able TO extri
cate my finger with very little diff
Guilty. 1t is of the utmost import
ance never to lose presence of mind
in dealing with these things.-LOn
don Field.
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Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1882-03-01

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Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1882-03-01
For the GUARDIAN.
READING.
~ PATSY PLCMMER.

There is no branch Of education
so badly neglected rs reading. Two
thirds of our children cannot read
well enough to get the idea convey.
ed, and without this, reading Is al.
most jargon. Young ladies plod to
and from school putting beneath the
/ load of Histories, GeOnetries, Grol.
ogics, Chemistrics, who positively
can't pronounce half the words,
much Less tell the meaning.
No wonder, our mails groan under
the load OF cheap trash; no wonder,
they spend so many useful hours III
novel reading; no wonder. so few
continue to study, after school days
pass.
This will I've the case until the
teacher has the moral courage to
tell the pupil who are too large to
read, that they must postpone the
study Of the scicuces until they
learn punctuation, actuatlon and
emphasis, saw practical Illus
tration of the difference in readers
few days ago. \ paper was laying
on my table, and WAS picked np, and
piece read ia hlundeliug, heSita
ting. manner; after which the reader,
in confusion, tossed it down say lug:
That WAS the poorest paper print
ed" .Ann'hcr picked it up, aud read
the comic pieces, and the house was
filled with glce; then an affecting
piece was read, and eAeS were filed
with tears, aud hearts thruhhiug
with sympathy, simply because they
were read, not only with the lips,
but with the soul. All can acquire
Il proficiency in art; hut in music
and mathematics only those who
haze time, tune and calculation
largely developed, can ever hope Ia
hc more than mere medlocreS.
Years of practice Will give good
mechanical execution; but it is i'm,
posSihlc for them to feel the inspira
lion of the trne musician; Therefore
their music falls dead aud Hat upon
the ear. This is II rare talent, so
rare that we can't find our native
teacher. but have to catch the
drunken, foreign scum that floats
from Paris. New York to Homer.
pity children. find them trying
to commit Rule of Three, hetore they
can tell the meaning of the words;
bewildered over partial payment
when they have to turn to the
multiplication table. True exam
ples of those "who see through the
glass darkly." | don't blame then
if they turn to the dime novel for
ray of light. Many wrecked life
NAV br traced to the neglect of read
ing in orr schools. The old piano
is generally thrown aside for thu
, harps Of Thousand squalls. Th'
gconetrical problem, for how long
y ten pounds of bacon can he made
! 10 stretch; but the mind stored will
beautiful thoughts is nevertalllns
source of pleasure; silent compan
ions that rise up and cheer then
midst lfe's stern duties. The pa
rent can instil the love of reading
by buying papers and books which
:, the children can understand. I'm
ill they can read give them block
. and pictures. know you haven
any money, times very hard; bu
one less trip Of that whisky ju;
to town will do the business. Fill
the sitting room table with papers
they are doing more to educate tb'
;, youth, to drive ont ignorance, super
: stition, error and hood winkers, thai
all the old numbering teachers Oh
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1882-03-01

That reading does not necessarily
make Il cultivated person Isl truib
not generallp apparent, even to con-
scientious readers who suppose
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15
THE PRESB YTERLAN POLTTY

The Belfast Witness, commenting on
the remark of the Spectator that the
Church of England is drifting fast toward
the Presbyterian organisation, topped by
Episcopal Moderators, observes:
The current history Of other denominations
seems at present to favor the supposition that
Presbyterianism is destined to affect in large
degree, the external development of them all.
The Independents and the Baptists seem to IA
vor some as yet underlined approach to our Pres
byterian order. Mr.. Spurgeon and Mr. Binney
have pointed out the isolation of Congregational
Churches as one great cause of weakness It is
a significant fact that while other systems of
Church government have been undergoing very
considerable changes Presbyterianism has re
manned unchanged in its main features for three
centuries. All the changes, too, in these other
bodies are in the direction of Presbyterian cohe.
siveness and order. Episcopacy in the United
States and In Ireland is a modified Presbyte-
rianism and Epscopacy in England is mani.
testify preparing for synodcal government, un-
der the guise and through the working of Its
present Congresses. Independency takes to
congregational unions and county associations,
and is, perhaps preparing for those semi-Pres-
byterian cancellations of New England which
have already done much service in REFRESHING
heresy Mr. Guinness Rogers holds that the
three prevailing forms Of Church government
Episcopacy, Presbyterianism, and Independent
cy-have not visibly lost ground within the
last Fifty years. But it is not the less true that
Presbyterianism has influenced the constitution
of the other bodies to an extent which seems ia
warrant the hope that it may yet be destined
to become the uniformer or the prevailing type
of Church government. 1t is happy circum-
stance, however, that in the midst Of all these
discussions about machinery and instrumental
ty, there are indications Of spiritual life and
spiritual activity everywhere; and that the
great Master, who holds all the Churches in Hi
hands, is pouring unbounded blessings upon tb,
world. through the zeal and energy Of his min
istering servants"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15

OUR NORTHERN religious exchanges
are all moralising on the recent elections.
1t is undoubtedly true that since the
North, with its party of moral ideas, f"
took the control of the country, political
proAigacy and corruption were never so
rampant, from Boston to Louisiana
The trouble now is that our politics
have become so corrupt that we do not
have fair elections. Both parties tamper
unscrupulously with the ballot-box. Who
can conceive all the frauds that were
practised in the recent elections? What
we want essentially in republican coun-
try is the purity of the ballot-box, and
without it. our popular elections are
farce. When voters by the thousand can
be bought and sold like sheep, what is
the sense of talking about government
of the people? How can we respect our
rulers when they are chosen by such cat
tie?
Is it not emphatically true now that
private station is the post of honor?
The N. Y. Independent calls on the
Republicans to rally, and says, Give us
a genuine, honest platform of reform in
the Civil Service, and we will fight on it."
Bah we have had enough of this sancti-
monious talk To read the editorials in
the New York dailies, one would sup
pose that the writer's wore the daintiest,
most spotless linen in the world-and
yet most of them are guided by consid-
erations which do not govern angels at
all The only affinity between them and
angels is that of common vocabulary.
We believe that about three of the
most top-loftically moral of the New York
dailies are owned by one Spectator in
stocks.
Our Northern cousins devote too much
attention to the South. They are all the
time lamenting our moral delinquencies.
The Independent in another article is
disturbed about the negroes in the South,
and what would one suppose it suggests
Mixed schools? Yes, but that is not all
it intimates that it favors misceqena-
ton
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocr1tesl for ye are as graves which
appear not, and the men that walk over
them are not aware of them.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15
THE RESUL rs IN -EG YPT

The first sermon of the seminary course
was preached some ten days since before
the students of Princeton Theological
Seminary by Dr. Jessup, of Syria, the
veteran missionary. AS direct results of
the war in Egypt he stated that we can
trace the following
The Sultan has lost his prestige aud diplc-
matte influence Today his followers ask if he
has so much power why did he stand by and
see England gain the victory. They are losing
faith in him which will result in loss of power.
The prestige of France is also destroyed Her
political influence in the East, though republic
boasting of fighting down utramontanism, has
been toward the support of papacy in its worst
FORM esuitism. But now her glory is de-
parting, and with the Sultan she is losing the
ground she has so long held. The Christian
world felt relieved when England was left
alone to grapple with the Eastern problem.
The final result is the breaking of the power
of Mohammedandism Had Arab succeeded
every Christian in Egypt would have been
murdered or driven out, and scenes transpired
which would have aroused the Christian word.
The massacre of 1860 is enough to make the
people shrink from even the thought of his sue
cess.
The outcome of the downfall of Mohamme-
danism will be new era of religious liberty.
The speaker appealed to the Christian men of
the country to draw ups memorial to Mr.. Glad
stone, insisting that in consummating the peace
in Egypt that England should insist upon per
feet liberty of thought and religion that it
should be crime 10 nunisb ohoponoadons cor
verted to Christianity.
In conclusion. the promises for the country,
as foreshadowed in the sentiment and acts of the
men were told. Christianity in doing the work
the noble works of mssionaries-is changing
the whole status Of affairs among the people.
The seminary opened favorably. For the
past year missions have received an impetus
which will tell. There are now three graduates
Of this seminary who have recently entered the
Syrian field"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15
WHO IS HEP
(From the Chicago Inter-ocean.)
Pulpit Style.


The popularity of pulpit oratory' is such
as to inspne too many windy and wordy preach
ers with an ambition to be eloquent, forgetting
that the Master whom they are expected to
initiate in word and deed used only the sim
plest dlction, and spoke even as a little child.
The great power of Moody and Spurgeon lies
to great extent in the force of simplicity
which marks their utterances. and the entire
absence Of an effort to display. There is a
young man in Richm ond, Va, whose oratory is
much admired by the highfalutin' class and his
sermons, as published, are full of high-sounding
expressions, seven-story adjectives, and obsolete
words For example, in a recently published
sermon from his pulpit appear such expressions
as the 'Prlmordial 6remist,' uncommeasurable
eternltles, redemption conditioned creation
internal selfdetermination impaled upon the
sharp retribution of an overmastering omnipc-
tence,' the ethical activity of inert Masses
the interior divinity flashing forth in transfg-
uring splendor and revealing the separateness
Of the Son of God, the atonement from which
Jehovah mapped the atlas of immensity,' and
others like them This sort of preaching may
be edifying to saints who like an absurd mysti-
clsm but poor sinner who is seeking salvation
and crying for, pardon at the foot of the cross
would not find very much comfort and consc-
lation in this rocky sort of literature Imagine
the Sermon on the Mount translated into this
kind of English, or the parable of the prodigal
son. damned full of jaw-twistings words like
boom full of logs in high water"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15

The SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN Re-
VIEW for October has been received, the
following are the table of contents:
1. An Apostolic Missionary in China, by Ag-
mes M Machar. From the Catholic Presbyterian.
2. The Lords Day, and not the Jewish Sab
bath, by the late Rev. John Beverage.
8 An Inquiry into the Aggressiveness of
PresbyterianIsm.
a. The Power Of Woman, by the Rev. Francis
P. Mutually, D. D., Walhalla, s. G..
5. What were the Cberublm by the Rev. r.
K. Moseley, Seguin, Texas.
6. ACall to the Ministry, by the Rev. John
B. Adger, D. D.. Pendleton, S. G.
Z. Documentary History Of the Assembly Of
1897, by the late Rev. DR.. Robert J. Breckir-
ridge
8. Recent Publications.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15

The statement is made that 295 Of
the ministers Of the Established Church of Scot
land have only an average income Of Gl5S a
year. But this is LIBERAL compared with early
times in America At the recent session Of the
Central New York Conference held at Ithaca,
no less than four Of the preachers who had been
in che Methodist ministry fifty years and uI-
wards, gave an entertaining account Of their
labors. One OF them Rev. James Erwin. said
he began preaching in 1881, on a circuit cover
ing 365 miles, and that for his first years labor
be received the sum Of $50, of which 81 was in
cash.
The Rev. DIR. Behrends, of Provi-
dence, r. l., made telling point at the meet
ing Of the American Board Of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions when he showed by incon-
trovertibe evidence that it was only the orthc-
dox and evangelical churches which produced
and maintained foreign missionaries.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15

IT is gratifying to learn from letter
to the Christian Herald that the health
Of the Rev. George Muller has been re.
stored. The letter says that, through
the Lords kindness, Mr.. Muller rapidly
recovered, and that he may now be con-
sidered 10eH He deems il most prudent
not to undertake the intended American
journey; but, instead Of this, he will
labor on the Continent of Europe. He
purposes shortly to move on to Pestb,
Hungary.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15
THE INFINITIES AFRO UND US,


M. Pasteur, the distinguished French
Sa0ant Especially distinguished for his
investigations in connection with the
question of spontaneous generation-oi
which he says no example has ever been
detected) was recently elected to the
place in the French Academy made va.
can't by the death of M. Littre. In an
address delivered before the members on
that occasion occurs the following pro-
found and eloquent passage:
What is there beyond this starry
vault ? More starry skies. Well, and
beyond that2 The human mind, driven
by an invincible force, will never cease
asking, What is there beyond2 1t
is useless to answer Beyond are unlim-
tied spaces, times, or magnitudes.' No
body understands these words. He who
proclaims the existence of an Infinite
and nobody can evade it-asserts more
OF the supernatural in that affirmation
than exists in all the miracles of all reli-
gions; for the notion of the Infinite has
the two-fold character of being irresisti-
BILE and incomprehensible. When this
notion seizes on the mind, there is moth
ing left but to bend the knee. In that
anxious moment all the springs of intel
lectual life threaten to snap, and one feels
near being seized by the sublime mad
ness of Pascal. Positivism unceremo-
nously thrusts aside this positive and
primordial notion, with all its bearings
on the life of human societies. Every
where [ see the inevitable expression OF
the Infinite in the world By it the SUI
pernatural is seen in the depths of every
heart. The idea of God is form of the
idea of the Infinite. AS long as the mys-
terry of the Infinite weighs on the human
mind, temples will be raised to the wor-
ship of the Infinite, whether the God be
called Brahma, Allah, or Jehovah; and
on the floor Of those temples you will see
kneeling men absorbed in the idea of the
Infinite. Metaphysics do but translate
within us the paramount notion of the
Infinite. The faculty which in the pre-
sence of beauty leads US to conceive of
superior beauty-is not that, too, the
conception of a never-realised ideal {?
What are science and the passion for
comprehending anything else, then, but
the effect of the stimulus exercised upon
our mind by the mystery of the universe?
Where is the real fountain of mans lib
erty ? where the true source Of woman's
dignity, but in the conception of the IT,
finite, in presence of which all men are