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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14
REFUGE IN GOD.

"Blessed Is That Man Whose Trust IL In
the Lord"
The fact that man needs the help,
sympathy, and presence of God is the
foundation truth of revelation. 1t is
the one sufficient reason for an inspired
book which gives to that book its whole
consistency and shape, and in the alb
sence of which its Divine inspiration
could not be maintained for moment.
All men need God in sorrow and in
Joy, in sickness and in health, in adj
versity and IN prosperity. 1t is false
idea, fraught with incalculable evil
influence on mems conduct, that we
need God only in trial. The greatest
of perils, from which God alone can
shield them, come to men in the full
tide of prosperity. Human need of
God does not arise from variable human
conditions; it springs from the inherent
relation of our souls to God. The men
who forget God, who live in and for
themselves and for the petty pleasures
of worldly life, need Him most; if for
no other reason, because their lives are
SO trivial and their pleasures such a
wretched travesty of real joy. For
such men, without God and without
any hopes or aspirations beyond the
low, material satisfactions of this world,
the whole God-revealing plan of re-
demption was provided. What folly,
then, for any man. however comforta-
BILE his lot, to think or act as if he
thought that he does not need God!
1t is beastly life to live. :.
Over against the fact of universal
need stands the blessed truth Of an
ever-present God the Father, the ref
uge. help, guide of all men. whose in
finite power to comfort, instruct save.
is as completely at their command as
# He existed tor humanity alone. He
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14
ADOPTED CHILDREN.
The True Story Of q Mother, Cat and
Three Little Squirrels.

Enc Akee story OF mother, Cat ana
Three Little Squirrels.
Mrs. Williams stood Oh the porch Of
her farmhouse home in Indiana one
day, looking for her two boys, who had
been out hunting. In corner Of the
porch was big basket, in which lay an
old cat, with three kittens about week
old. Presently the Two boys came up.
viii had his hat in his hand, carrying
something, which proved to be three
very young squirrels. They had killed
the mother, and, finding the young
ones in the nest, had brought them
home, and meant to raise them for
pets. .-.
''rll put 'em down here, and get
box for en-" and Will, taking the
little things from his cap, and placing
them on the floor of the porch. At
that moment. Tab jumped out of her
basket, and marched up to them.
"Oh, the cat! She'll eat 'em up!"
cried Mrs Williams, and was stopping
to rescue the squirrels, when Will
stopped her. ''Let's see what she'll
do"
What pass did do was to walk up, 60
around the squirrels. smell them q lit
lie, and then lick and caress them,
purring softly over them. She
stayed . moment then turned
and walked away, when, hear
ing one of the squirrels CRY, she
turned back, watched them a little,
then deliberately picked one of them
up. and carried it to her basket. Lay
ing it down with her kittens, she came
back and carried the other two in the
same way. When they were all in the
nest, she cuddled herself down with
them, licking and smoothing their fur
as if they were her own babies.
The boys were delighted, but Mrs.
Williams was greatly alarmed, and
wanted them to take the little Great
ures out, declaring that they would be
eaten by morning. The boys, howev-
err. left the squirrels and kittens togeth-
err, and the next morning they were as
contented as if they had always been
there.
And there they stayed, and the good
old Tab brought them up with her own
family. They soon got large enough
to run up the trees in the yard, where
they would play and frisk about, and
return, when tired, to their cat-moth-
er. At last one of them ran off to the
woods. and day or two later the 9TH
err ones followed. The boys tried to
catch the ungrateful little beasts, but
did not succeed.
Puss whined and mewed after them
for few days, and refused to be COM
forted, but finding they did not return,
devoted herself to the rest of her fami-
ly, and seemed to conclude to mourn
no longer for her toster-children.
This incident actually occurred, just
as given, near the little village of Har-
mony, during the year just passed. -
Matte Dyer Britts, in Youth's Compaas-
| ton.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14
A Little Orphans Help.

General Hancock relates the fol-
lowing pathetic incident which &C.
Cured at Gettysburg, Just before his
famous charge: Passing near the out
skirts of his lines, he came upon child,
only half-a-dozen years or SO of age,
and hardly yet old enough to speak
plainly.
She somehow had strayed near the
Union pickets. bringing an old rife
heavier than she could well carry with
out showing that she was overburdened.
When she saw General Hancock she
held the load in her arms q little
higher and fairly ran into his arms cry.
ing:
my papa's dead, but here's my
papa's gunr'
There was something like tear in
General Hancock's eye as he recited
the heroic little incident 81 never re-
call that brave chit of child's offering
to our cause" he said. without feel
ing the deepest reverence. Her half
lisped words voiced q sentiment that
was sublime. y YeGth's Companion.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14
FOR OUR YOUNG READERS.
SLEEPY.

Isat one evening watching
A little golden head
That was nodding DER picture-book,
And pretty soon ! said:
"Come, darling, you are sleepy.
Don't you want to 60 to DedT
"No," she said, ~ isn't Sleepy,
But can't hold up my head.
sJust now IL feels so heavy,
There isn't any use:
Do lot me lay 1t down to rest
On dear Old Mother Goose!
siia mt shut up my eyes ut all,
And SO you needn't fear;
III keep EN- open all the while
To see this picture here.
And, then, as I said nothing,
She settled for nap;
One curl was resting on the It'll
or the old lady's cap;
Her arm embraced the children sman
Inhabiting the shoe.
20 dear" thought !, what shall ! sayf
For this will never do"
sat awhile in silence =.
Till the clock struCk ding dtng.
And then went around and kissed
The cunning little thing.
The violets unfolded
As kissed her, and she said:
~ isn't Sleepy. sister;
But guess III 20 to bed"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14
THE GENESIS OF FOLLY.

Mind and Conscience Utterly Blinded by
the Love of Evil.
1t is not only true that sin is very sim
full; it is quite as true that sin is very
silly. Sin has well been called the
greatest folly in the universe. 1t is fol-
ly, because it contradicts omnipotent
order and omnipotent God. 1t assumes
that one can thrust his arm into the
moving machinery of creation and not
get crushed.
Sin is more than silly; it begets silli-
ness. Before it brings forth death it
brings forth and reproduces folly. 1t
deranges the Judgment and makes us
see things out Of their proper rela-
tons.
If astronomers could have looked at
the sky from the sun instead of the
earth, it would have been very easy to
understand tho solar system. Men
would not have held, for thousands of
years, to the Ptoiemaic system with
all its irregular movements, forward
and backward, of the planets. 1t was
because they were not at the center,
but in the eccentric and moving
position of the earth, that they
got their astronomy all wrong. Let a
man put himself by the side of God, at
the center of the universe, and he will
see every thing in its proper relation.
Every thing will move in an orderly
way around God. Let him get far from
God, and every thing will be distorted
and false.
When Christ told the Jews that they
were of their father the devil, who was
liar from the beginning, he did not
mean that they were liars like him. He
meant that they believed his lies. So,
said He: because l say the truth. We
believe Me not" God was His Father,
and the truth was with Him; God was
not their Father, and so they did not
understand the truth when they saw it.
They took their father word for truth,
not Christ's Fathers.
HE that is Of God heareth the word
of God; for this cause ye hear them not
because We are not Of God" That
was Christ's way of saying that de-
light in evil utterly blinds the mind as
well as the conscience.
So it has come to be almost prov
erb that the most gullible of all men
are the professional unbelievers in
Christ's teaching. The Theosophists
and the Spiritualists are nearly all in
fidels, and are the most easily hum
bugged and cheated of all living men.
Hundreds of the most successful show
men in the spiritualistic line have been
shown up: but it all makes no differ.
ence; their dupes can not be deceived.
They are determined to believe a lie.
Madame Blavatsky is proved charla'
tan of the grossest sort; but the dupes
still cling to her Mahatmas. The Chris
tan religion is quite beyond theil
faith. They are not so credulous as tt
believe that Jesus was the Son of God
that His teachings came from God
that He did miracles and rose from the
dead; but that vulgar, immoral lner
and women do miracles now they be
lieve with open-mouthed and gaping
wonder Christ's word is still true
What they believe is the fruit of theil
character. The children of God be-
lieve the things of God; and the chill
dren of the Devil believe the Devil
lies. y Independent.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14
Recently Albert Isaac, an Indian,

Recently Albert Isaac, an Indian,
was hanged at Alturas, CAL, for MUIR
der committed about q year ago. He
made no confession while in the Jail,
and said up to the last that he didn't
known anything about it. He rather
seemed TO like theidea Of being hanged.
In conversation with Rev. Griffiths he
said: If live have to work hard to
make my living; If ! die / no work any
more" He was engaged most OF his
time during his confinement in playing
solitaire" and said when he got on
the other side he would teach the game
over there. He ate harty dinner be-
fore being led to the gallows. - San
Francisco Call.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14
RELIGIOUS READING,
CIRCULATION.

Dost thou feel the sings and arrows
by outrageous fortune cast9
Do they cloud thy sky with sorIowA
And embitter all thy past?
Art thon growing weary hearted
With strife that will not cease?
DOst thou think thy soul hath parted,
For all time, with Joy and peace?
Think not thus. Though tolls environ. /.
Others have the same withstood;
IT'S by constant blows that iron
Grows more powerful for good.
Every tree 10 fuller fruited
For the wound of pruning-shears;
Every tree is firmer rooted
For the tempests of the years.
If the fire that burns thee sorely
Be indeed q fiery cross,
1t refines thee, slowly, surely,
Cleansing all the gold Of dross.
AND the perfect man ID builded
Faster in the evil day;
Every loss cornice gilded,
Every care stronger stay.
So that, though the world grows colder,
And thy bosom friends be less,
Thou to every true behOlder
Shalt increase in oOmelinesA
So that, out of tribulation.
Thou shalt have more perfect light,
And u fuller compensation
For the darkness of the night.
The Qitper.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

A medical journal says that I'M
ventilated hats are great causers of
badness, and adds: "Thc beard never
falls out, because it has plenty of light
and air" All, well, you don't know
about that. If man began wearing a
beard as early as he wears his hair per-
haps by the time he is fifty his jaws
would be as bald as q billiard ball.-M.
Y. Ieleqrdm.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

All persons travelling in France are
strictly warned that under the provis-
ions Of a recent French law the follow
ing acts are made offenses punishable
by fine and imprisonment: Making
sketches, drawings or plans in the vi
entity of a fortress or naval station,
scaling palisades, entering military in.
closures and mounting carthworks Oh
parapets; also the making of any ques.
tons upon any points concerning the
state defenses.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14
The cannibals in the world may

The cannibals in the world may be
numbered by millions. Probably a
third of the natives of New Guinea are
cannibals; so are about two-thirds of
the occupants of the New Hebrides, and
the same proportion of the Solomon
islanders. All the natives.Of the Santa
Cruz group, Admiralties, Hermits, La
bisiade, Engineer, D'Enirecasteaux
groups are cannibals, and even some
well authenticated cases have occurred
among the "black fellows" or Northern
Australia.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

The acreage in cotton of the cotton
growing States last year was 1922, 1888
acres. The crop for the season was
5,774, 665 bales, equal to 2,742,9 OIL
pounds of lint, or about 1928, 1913, O3S
pounds of seed cotton. The great ex-
pense attached to cotton growing is the
cost of picking. The lowest price paid
for picking in any of the Southern
States is fifty cents per 100 pounds. AS
the crop amounted to S,22S, 1898, 033
pounds the cost of picking was $4l, 4l4,-
449.-Chicago Tribune.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

"What furniture can give such finish 70
. room, as tender woman's face" asks
answer, provided the glow of health
tempers the tender expression. The pale.
anxious, bloodless face Of the consumptive,
or the evident suiferings of the dyspeptic,
induce feelings Of sorrow and grief on our
part and compel us to tell them Of DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery" tho
sovereign remedy for consumption and
other diseases of the respiratory system as
we'll as dyspepsia and other digestive
troubles. Sold everywhere.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

Your pulse will throb fast and wild
when you come to know that your
days on earth are ended. = Sunny
Cline. What new theory is thisp We
always supposed that the pulse stopped
when our days were ended. Gorhana
MOuntQineer.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

don't you know how many three
times ten isp Now, Harry, said the
teacher, If one loaf Of bread cost ten
cents, wouldn't three cost thirty cents?"
''Maybe SO at your bakery; but we deal
with baker that gives three for q
Quarter. IN. Y. Independent.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14
Rest Com Cake. One COO. one-h,

Best Corn Cake: One egg, one-haf
cup of sugar. one cup Of sweet milk,
one cup Of Indian meal, one cup of
-four, one teaspoonful of soda, two
teaspoonfuls Of cream-tartar. Bake in
a square loaf or in a thin sheet in a
dripping pan, and cut in squares, or in
small tina -Baptisf Weekly n.t
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

Best Goods are Put In Smallest Parcels.
The old proverb is certainly true in the
case Of DR.. Pierce's Pheasant Purgative
Pellets" which are little, sugar-wrapped
parcels, scarcely larger than mustard seeds,
containing as much cathartic power as is
ing pill. Unlike the big pills, however,
they are mild and pleasant in their opera
tion-do not produce gripping palms. nor
render the bowels costive after using.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

Madness in cattle was once sup
posed to arise from distemper in the
internal substance Of their horns, and
furious or mad cattle had their horns
bound with straw. Ne
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

PLEASE remember that GLENN's SULPHuR
Soar presents all the advantages OF Sui
phur Baths at a cheap rate. HILLS hAIR
And WnIsKER DYE, Black or Brown, 5oc.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

You've man, never say to your sire:
"You might go, father, and fare worse."-
Detroit Free Press.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

If afiicted with Soro Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompson'sEy Water. Druggists sell it. Sc.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

TALK Ia chesp-except through the tele
phone. -NeU Bruns,oick FreIonia.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

For restoring faded and gray hair to its
original color, use Halls Hair Remover.
Sufferers from malarial disorders will find
. specific in Ayers Ague Cure. Try it.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

Gas bills should be carefully fled; not
necessarily for preservation, but in order
to reduce their size.-Judge
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

BACK PAY-Kicking book agent out OF
your flice.-NUsAenf Traveller.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

MEN who think they mold public
opinion say to the world: please ask us
when you wish to think."-N. D. Picaynne.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

A MAN should be allowed to laugh at his
own jokes. Others may not see where the
laugh Gomez in. .I.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

A WRITER says: "Whata quaint head was
Carlyle's." Were you quaint head with
him!-Te1as SUtings.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

THERE are two things woman likes to
get into papers-her front hair and her
name.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

A HoMELY woman has some advantage
over beautiful one. 1t is possible for
other women to love her.-Chicdgo Tribune.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

The small boy now dreams Of marble
hauls. "-Boston Commercial.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

THE Texas Siftings suggests that this 10
the season Of the maiden all for lawn
tennis.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

DELICATE diseases Of either sex, however
induced, radically cured. Address, with 10
cents in stamps for book Worlds Dispen-
sary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

H1 covered the whole point-The man
who sat down on q carpet tack.-Lifs.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

PIso's Remedy for Catarrh is agreeable
70 use. 1t is not liquid or snuff soc.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

''WAs the drum beaten because Il called
the harp lyrel"-Teras Siftings.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

"A New YORK paper says the milk sold in
that city Il white lie." - =
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

WHEEL never tire of entertaining the cy.
clists Let them axle they want and they
shall have it-Boston Post.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

MANproposes; woman discloses, and then
the whole world says Il told you So "-Bur-
Lnqton Free Press.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

ABAcHELoR editor, who had pretty un-
married sister, lately wrote to one similar.
" circumstancsd: please sxchanEe."-
~ Y z3eorese
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

A LAWYER Is not a cat; but he can be
placed IN the fee-line category.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

IT is not patriotism which leads doctors
TO 60 to war. It's pillage. Pittsburgh
Chronicle
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

SOLD again-Second-hand articles.-Bvy.
kxgton Free Press.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

THE skeleton man travels on his shape
Indianapolis Herald.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

MUST your kitchen fire be Of dissipated
disposition because it goes out every nights
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-14

Urs,oE down-A feather bed.-Ns
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-25
THE Difference.

Contrast Between Gilt-Edged and Poor
Dairy Butter.
Gilt-edged butter may be too expen.
sive, but it is a wholesome luxury, II
delights the palate; it aids digestion, il
warns the body and makes the wheels
of life roll easily and smoothly along,
and thus promotes health and happi.
ness, for health and happiness are as
ISOLATED. The man who supplies the
world with fine butter is a benefactor
of his race, and puts the earth he con-
trolls to good use, and is entitled to re-
spect, encouragement and protection
from the society whose happiness and
welfare his labors promote. With poor
butter it is the reverse in everything.
1t is unpalatable, and, instead of aiding,
it interferes with digestion and vitiates
the blood, and is therefore unwhOle-
some. 1t not only does not please any
body; it is often even loathsome. The
man who makes poor butter does the
world no good. His labors are worse
than wasted, his products become q
burden to society, and work loss to
himself. He is no good on earth. His
name is by-word and reproach. and
he is unworthy of encouragement or
protection. He is only a fit subject for
pity and the labors of a missionary
Forest, Forge and Farm.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-25
MOVING ROADSIDES.

Why Weeds Growing Along the Sides -
Highways Should He Cut Down.
1t should be part Of the road work!
every where to keep the weeds cut down
which spring up along the sides of the
highways, and this work should never
be neglected. There is scarcely .
neighborhood in which the highways do
not mature enough weeds to seed hah
the adjoining fields. 1t would be to tho
interests Of the owners of those fields to
have the highways m0wn; but they fail
to do this because the roads are pub
lie property. and they feel that every
item Of their care should be part Of tho
public expense. Usually nearly all Of
the work could be done with . two-h0rse
mower, the scythe being necessary only
where there are projecting posts, sharp
Offsets in the fence, etc. Thus done.
the work would cost vesy little com
paRsd With the damage it would avoid.
II the road overseers do not feel dis
posed TO have this work done, fearing
that il is outside their duties, it should
b brought up before the annual town
meeting and voted upon. II properly
presented before the vote is taken. very
few, il any. wa vote against it. Itm.y
be we'll to suggest that not only those
who have fields by the highways viii b.
benefited. but every man who passes
along the road-An'esicsH A0uesSf
turisk
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-25
ONE LITTLE MAID At SCHOOL,

One little maid Ut school Is she,
Only Q schoolgirl, don't you re.
And little che knows. must agree.
This little girl at school.
Lessons and teachers all the day,
But nothing seems in her head to stay.
Bed little girl ut SCHOOL,
But what do care II you can stick
This dear little girl in arithmeticl
Away %ith n = Ell Ito to the very old Nick'
Needs nothing Of figures, she whose own
Il the loveliest ngure ever grown,
Or painted ON cloth, or cut In stone.
Rare little girl ut SCHOOL,
She's rather weak in geography; ,
must ooS one Iay e tSs me-
BAD little girl at school!
But what Is the earth, I'd like to know,
That she need thought on the thing bestowl
rs enough II she touch 1t with her toe,
Gay little girl 1t SCHOOL,
Her writing looks like the wild Chinese.
That comes on Q box OF China teas,
Or just like clothes-line in breeze
Poor little girl at school!
'Sne mas tried those hayward strokes TO train,
But she gives herself but needless pain.
For how could such . pretty hand be plAinf
Fair little girl at SCHOOL,
what II her French and German. too,
Would turn q French or German bluef
And her Latin prose is Greek to you,
Droll little girl at school!
I'm contented quite, must confess,
If, when for an answer l shall press,
She knows enough English to tell me "Yes"
Shy little girl at school!
One little maid at school is she
Would that her teacher might bel
There's just one thing she would learn from
me,
This little girl at SCHOOL,
There's just one word would teach until
It's meaning sweet all her heart should Ill.
I w "
You dear little girl at SCHOOL,
u. p. Lyons, in Puck,