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Rag-Carpet Weaving.

The industry of weaving ld.fashioncd
rag carpets is fast disappearing. This
trade was among the most lucrative and
important known few decades ago.
The men who still follow it can be
found only in Easements in out-of-the-
way places. Brooklyn was at one time
o sort of centre for the industry, and
weavcrs could be counted by the score.
Now only eight are known to follow it.
One of these is James Early, who still
works his quaint old machine in a base
ment on one of Brooklyn's side streets,
where it was set up about forty-fve
years ago.
"We don't stand much chance nova
days." grucfully remarked Early the
the other day. "All we can depend on
is that sort of work." and the old
gentleman pointed to box filled with
large balls made from narrow strips Of
rags sewed together. "a woman just
sent that collection in from the country,
and I'm ito make her a carpet out of
them. When folks send in lot of stuff
like that l make 1t up with linen warp Tor
twenty-eight cents q yard. Good rag
carpet is worth fifty cents yard. Some
weavcrs will turn out cheap cotton
warp for twenty-five cents, but in short
time the top will wear off and the rags
become loose. A linen warp will last
forever. Improved machinery has killed
our Iue;nas, almost ohsoIutalv md with
ingrains running from twenty-five cents
yard and up, and Brussels beginning
at as low a figure as sixty-fve cents,
there is no use trying to put the good,
durable, soft rag carpet in the market at
fifty cents. If it were not for the house
keepers rags that are saved and sent to
US, there would be no use for even the
few carpet wcavcrs that arc still left.
We used to be able to do we'll, but those
days have passed, never to return. ."-Me~
York Star.
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PEOPLE who are afraid OF lightning
may be consoled by the knowledge that
there is thousand times the danger in
the sewer pipes that there is in the
thunder clouds. The deaths by light
ming are few indeed. Who of the read.
ers of this paragraph ever lost friend
that way? Who Of them hasn't lost a
score of friends by the less brilliant and
less noisy destruction that comes up
out of the drains? The trouble with the
lightning, or the trouble that it gives
the people, is in its indescribable sud.
denness and its absolute uncertainty.
You know neither when it is coming nor
where it is going; all you feel certain
about Is that some storms leave num-
ber of catastrophes to mark their course.
The caprice of the lightning defies the
explanations of science, and there is NO
predicting beyond a few generalities.
This much it does seem safe TO repeat,
even in the lively lightning season, that
the increased use of electricity, with
the multiplicity of wires. has tended to
fewer fatal strokes of lightning in
oitio1 - j
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enough for you7 Arc you afraid of me

enough for youf Arc you afraid of me
now2"
What was the matter with the hand.
some, blithe girl9 She was smiling
brightly, but her dark eyes were almost
misty. Dick did not know then, but q
time came when he did. He had felt the
power of her delicate beauty, her bright
ness, her sweetness-and there was an
answering thrill in her own heart.
"I am not afraid of you," Dick said,
gently. "And l know now where I saw
you before. 1t was in Harrington, long
while ago, but I have never forgotten
you, Miss Faulkner"
And he looked down to her, and she
dropped her conscious eyes to her lap.
And it did not occur to them to drive
back till Jim Gardner and Carrie came in
sight down the road.
Dicks shyness was not wholly eradi-
Gated. 1t was five long months after
ward that he came home from Earring
ton aud told his sister that he had left
ring there, and on Maggy Faulkncr's
hand.
"IYe liked each other from the very
flrst," he said, simply. "Only that story
of yours came near settling things; the
horse ran away in the nick of time"
"It wasn't mine, Dick" said Carrie.
(She and Jim had been married in Sep
tembcr.) "It was Sally Decker that
said it, you know, and she always mixes
things up. 1t was your own fault if you
believed it; didn't. t."-Saturday Night.
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WORLDLY CONFORMITY.

From many sources there comes some
faint Insight into the growing worldly ten
dency of the Church. The Presbyterian
says: "a quarter of century ago, and
more, DR.. james W. Alexander wrote with
great decision of influences then at work.
He said, The door at which those influences
enter which countcrvail parental instruction
and example am persuaded is s.sie Yielding hngs to
and amusements, nm atmosphere is formed
which is not that of Christianity. More than
ever do feel that our families must stand
in kind but determined opposition to the
fashions of the world, brcasting the waves
like the Eddystone lighthouse.
"'And have found nothing yet which re-
ouires more courage and independence than
to rise a little, but decidedly above the par
Of the righteous world around US If 1 this
was true in his day, 1t must be acknowl-
edged to be more undcniably and sadly.
true in our own time. The incursions OF
allen influences and customs upon the sacred
territory of the Church have been steady
growing more marked, perhaps because less
earnestly rcsistcd.-[St. Louis Advocate.
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Sixty-tw0 Cold Waves Per Year.

A very interesting paper read yester-
day afternoon in the Physics section was
b. Professor 7. Russell, Of the Signal
Office, Washington, on the "Prcdiction
of Cold Waves from Signal Service
Weather Maps" When the fall of tenn
peraturc in twenty-four hours is twenty
degrees or more, and covers an area of at
least $4,000 square miles, and the tenn.
peraturo in tho area goes as low aa
thirty-six degrees, it is called cold wave.
In the past ten years there have been 621
cold waves in the United States. The
greatest cold wave was that of January
IL, 1882, when the area included was
], = l01, 900 square miles. The cold waves
always occur in an area covered by low
barometric pressure on the preceding
day, or to the southeast of region COW
cred by an area of high barometric pres.
sure.-Erl;anapolis Ness.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-01
THE BIBLE FEOsf GOD.

Can you doubt the authenticity of the
Scriptures? There is not so much evidence
that Walter Scott wrote The Lady Of the
Lake." not so much evidence that Shakes-
peare wrote "Hamiet;" not so much evil
dence that John Milton wrote Paradise
Lost" as there is evidence that the Lord God
Almighty. by hands Of the prophets, evan
geliStS and apostles, wrote this book.
Suppose book now to be written which
and was written BY bad men or impostors,
how long would such book standY It
would be secuted by everybody. And say
if that Bible had been all imposition, or If it
had not been written by the men who said
they wrote ii if it had been mere collec-
ton Of falsehoods, do you not suppose that
it would have been Immediately rejected by
the people?
II Job, and Isaiah, and jeremiah, and
Paul, and Peter, and John were inpostors,
they would have been secuted by genera
tions and nations. If that hook has come
down through fires and centuries without, q
scar, it is because there is nothing in 1t de-
structiblc How near have they come to
destroying the Bible? When they began
their opposition there were two or three
thousand copies of it. Now there are two
hundred millions, Us far as / can calculate.
These Bible truths, Notwithstanding all the
oppo.ition, have gone into all languages
into the philos ophic Greek, the flowing
Italian, the graceful German, the passionate
French, the picturesque Indian, and the en-
haustless Angio-Saxon. =.
Under the painter's pencil the birth and
the cructixion and the resurrection glow on
the walls of palaces; or under the engraver's
knife speak from the mantel Of the noun
tain cabin; while stones, tou ;hed by the
sculptor's chisel, start up into preaching
apostles and ascending martyrs. Now, do
you not suppose. if that book had been an
imposition and falsehood, it would have
gone down under these ceascless fires of OPP
position?
Further, suppose that there was great
pestience going over the earth, and hundreds
Of thousands Of men were dying with that
pestilence, and some one should find med.
icine that cured ten thousand people, would
not everybody acknowledge that that must
be good mediciEef Why some one would
say: DO YOU deny II? There have been ten
thousand people cured by it," I simply state
the fact that there have been hundreds of
thousands of Christian men and women who
say they have felt the truthfulness Of that
book and its power in their souls.
It has cured them Of the worst leprosy
that ever came down on our earth, namely,
the leprosy of sin; and if can point YOU to
multitudes who say they have felt the
power Of that cure, arc you not reasonable
enough to acknowledge the fact that there
must be some power in the medicine? VIII
YOU take the evidence of millions Of patients
who have Eeen cured, or will you take the
evidence of the skcptic who stands aloof and
confesses that he never took the mcdicinef
i [Talmage.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
TIE Way OF THE WORLD.


Laugh, and the world laughs with you,
Weep, and you weep alone,
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth.
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills vii! answer,
Sight, is lost OH the air.
The echoes bound to 4 joyful sound,
But shrink from voiciug care.
Rejoice, and men will seek you,
Grinvc, and they turn and go;
They want full measure Of az your pleasure,
But hry do not need your woe.
Be glad. AMI Your friends are many,
Be sud, end you lose them all
There arc Zone 10 decline your nectar'd wine,
But alone you must drink liee's gall.
Feast, and your halls are crowded,
Fast, ann the world goes by;
Succeed and give, and it helps you live,
But no man can help you de-
There is room in the hall Of pleasure
For large and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow asles OF pain.
Il Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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What MacarOni Means.

Few people who sing the old song,
"Yankee Doodle" and utter mechani-
cally the words, "Stuck feather in his
hat and called it macaroni," stop to
think what the word macaroni implies.
'sMacaroni" is the old-time word for
dude or dandy. The name in old Eng
land formerly signifed fop.
1t was first applied to the three young
men who travelled great deal, and who
introduced macaroni into England.
These three young men were very fop-
pish in their dress, in fact, they were
typical dudes, and the nickname which
they received was soon applied to all
others Of their class. So, when Yam
kec Doodle ''stuck feather i'll his hat
and called it macaroni," he was simply
tcrmine himself dude.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-01

The wife of Senator Davis, ofMinne-
sofa, is able to make this extraordinary
statement: when ten years Of age
my aunt bought me pattern, some
navy-blue cloth and some black velvet,
and told me I must make myself a
gown, which did, greatly to her salts
faction and my own and the envy of my
little playmates. From that time to
the present day I have never paid one
cent to a dress-maker or milliner, nor
has any one else done so for me. Every
dress, hat and bonnet I wear is made
and trimmed by my own hands" .
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NOT SELF, EuT CHRIST.

There is moe pluck than pulp in great
deal of what passes for piety. 1t is an au-
dacious attempt to get free ride to heaven
in drawing room car, with plenty OF select
company and good fare or the road. "Mul
Dr. A. be in his pulpit today? WIN the
music be up to the mark: Is it likely to
clear eff? Then I'll try to so to church to-
dsv'n with such soliloquy on Sabbath
morning, how much grace is there likely to
be left after the wear and tear Of the week!
The picty that Christ smiles upon Is
piety that will stand q pinch and face
storm: that would rather eat an honest
crust than fare sumpIuously on unhoy gains;
that gladly give up its couch Of ease to sally
off on its mission among the outcasts: that
sets its Puritan face like flint against fash
ionab,e sins. We talk Cliblv about taking
up a cross" but cross is intended for some-
body's crucifixion. On Calvary's cross we
know full well who blcl away His precious
life. On our cross. self is to be the victim:
Paul, the heroic, was emphasizing this fact
whom he commanded Christians to mortify
their members which ore upon the earth.
The American revision Of the New Testa-
ment hits the sense Of this passage more &C
curately: Put to death your own men,
bers," etc. Loyalty to Christ often demands
the p!ucking out Of the right eye, and the
amputation of the right arm. The sublime
glory of Abraham'S offering really WAS, tnat
Re was willing to thrust the knife through
the very heart OF self Oh, it is not the TAX
ing up it is the giving up, that makes
strong, athletic. heroic Christian!-[Dr. T.
l.. Cuyler.
Leave ell and you shall find all; for every
thing is to be found in God by him. who,
for the sake of God, despises everything
[Augustine.
One of the finest sights in the world IS
Christian at tie end of 4 long course, with
an unsullici reputation: bis hair may be
white, but his leaf is green.-[Gsy.
Thr whole secret of joyful, strong, noble
Christian life lies here-that on the founda-
ton OF faith We should rear tenacious ad-
hcrencc to Chris. in spite OF sli Obstacles
[Sclected.
The Christian should consider that this is
not his rest that here he must toll AMI suffer;
that here he is but q pilgrim in strange
country; that his pathway through !ife at
hest i, rough and ru-:ed; that hind
are to tc overcome: burdens are to he borne;
trials arc 20 be endured, and only when llfe's
day anil labor are OVER is the reward 20 be
received.
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A WILL made by Frederick the Great

A WILL made By Frederick the Great
in 1741, during the first Silesian war,
is printed in the first volume of "The
Wars of Frederick the Great" just
published ir Germany. 1t reads as fol-
lows: II am only King so long as I am
free. If they kill me Iwish my body to
be burned in Roman fashion and my
ashes to be inclosed in an urn at Rheims.
burp. In this case Knobelsiorf his
arehitectl shall construct & monument
TOR me like that OF Horace Of Tuscu.
lum." .,
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TITS WELL WE CANNOT SEE.

When another life is added
To the heaving, turbid mass;
When another breath Of being
Stains creations tarnished glass;
When the first cry, weak and piteous,
Heralds oag-enduring pain,
And-a soul from non-existerce
- Springs, that ne'er can die again;
When the mothers passionate welcome,
= Sorrow-likc, bursts forth in tears,
And sire's self graduation
Frophcsies Of future years,
1t is we'll we cannot sea
What the end will be.
When the by upon the threshold
Of his all comprising home
Puts aside the arm maternal
That unlocks him ere he roam;
When the canvas of his vessel
Flutters 20 the favoring gale
Years OF solitary exile
Hid behind tho sunny sail
When his pulses beat with ardor
And his sinews stretch for toll,
And hundred bold emprises
Lure him to that Eastern soil,
1t is well we cannot SEQ
What the end shall be.
When the altar of religion
Greets the expectant bridal pair,
And tie VOW that lasts till dying
Vibrates on the sacred air;
When mans lavish protestations
Doubts of after change defy,
Comforting the Trailer spirit
Round his servitor for aye;
When beneath loves silver moonbeams
Many rocks in shadows sleep
Undiscovered till possession
Shows the danger of the deep,
1t is we'll we cannot see
What the end shall be.
Whatsoever is beginning
That is wrought by human skill;
Every daring emanation
OF the minds ambitious will;
Every first impulse of passion,
Gush Of love or twinse of hate;
Every launch upon the water
Wide horizoned by our fate;
Every venture in the chances
Oflife's sad, oft desperate game,
Whatsoever he our motive,
Whatsoever be our aim,
1t is well we cannot see
What the end shall be.
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TIE newspapers, are now trying 10
find the man WHO spent the most days
in rebel prisons during the late war. So
far as hsald from yet, E. W. Ware Of
Bangor, is ahead, he having suffered
6G0 days in Charleston, Columbia,
Charlotte, Raleigh, Goldsharo and
Grsanshnro prisons, .,.....-.-.-sI ...--.sI-s
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Faulkner, turning her clear eyes upon
him rather impatiently. "Anything else
would have been stupid, you know. And
why shouldn't. know something about
horses2 We have one, and I drive all
over Harrington every day."
":+arrington2" said Dick, blankly.
"Don't go back to monosyllables, Mr..
Corwinr" Miss Faulkner said, wickedly.
eyes, harrington. Why not2 I live
there; I've lived there nineteen years and
three months, Mr.. Corwin.'
''In Farrington2" said poor Dick,
dazedly. "My sister said you were from
the city"
"Hardly. harrington has only ten
thousand inhabitants, you know" said
Miss Faulkner. "Is that the reason you
were afraid of mt, Mr.. CorwinS"
She lowered her mischievous eyes.
"That and few other things" said
Dick. Talk! Itwculd be hard to stop
talking now. ''Shc said, you see, that
somebody else had said that you were
awfully rich and high-and-mighty, and
had been to Europe twice, and Well,
if it had all been true, needn't have be-
hayed like numbskull. But I'm bash
full naturally, Miss Faulkner, aid I was
about ratified out of my wits. That's
the truth of it, Miss Faulkner.
She threw up both hands and her pretty
round chin.
IL almost believe somebody has been
making fun of me-" she vowed.
"Europe7 We went to the Thousand
Islands once; but we had to economic
rather to do that. Father has a hard
ware store, and not such very prosper.
Gus one, either. There! Am I candid
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o. 20 VI WY cio oS 1uo "iuSS aTe spread over all
the caglets in the eyrie, and when the eagle
starts from the rock tho shadow is like the
spreading of storm cloud. So the wings
OF God are broad wings. Ruth had been
under those wings in her infantile days; in
the days of her happy girlhood in Moab: in
the day when she gave her hand to Mahlon,
in her first marriage; in the day when she
wept over his grave; in tho day when she
trudged out into the wilderness Of poverty;
in the days when she plucked up the few
straws of barley dropped by ancient custom
in tho way of the poor.
Oh! yes, the wings of God are broad wings.
They cover up all cur wants, oil our sor-
rows oil our sufferings. He puts one wing
over our cradle and He puts tho other over
our grave. Yes, my dear friends, it is not
desert in which we are placed, it is n nest
Sometimes it is very hard nest, like that Of
tho eagle, spread on tho rock. with ragged
moss and rough sticks, but still is nest; and
although it may be very hard under us, over
US are the wings of the Almighty. There
sometimes comes period in ones life when
he feels forsaken. You said, Everything
is against me. The world is against me.
The church is against me. No sympathy. no
hope. Everybody that comes near mo
thrusts at me. wonder is there is God,
anyhowr
Everything seems to be going sipshou and
at haphazard. There does not seem to be
any hand on tho helm. Jobs health fails
David's Absalom gets to be q reprobate
Martha's brother dies. Abraham's Sarah
goes into the grave Of Machpelah, "Woe
worth the day in which was born" he said
many Christian. David seemed to scream
out in his sorrow, rs be said: "Is His mercy
clean gone forever? And will He be favor
able no more' And hath He in anger shut
up His tender merciesr' Job, with bis throat
swollen and ulcered until he could not even
swallow the saliva that ran into his mouth,
exclaims: "How long before Thou wilt de-
part from me and leave mo alone, that may
swallow down my spittle" Have there never
been times i'll your life when you envieI
those who were buried2 When you longed
Tor Unc gravedlgger TO DO his work for you'll
Oh, the faitblessness of the human heartl
Gods wings are broad, whether VIC know it
Or not"
Sometimes the mother bird goes away
from the nest and it seems very strange that
ahe should leave tho callow young. She
plunges her beak into tho bark of the treo,
and she drops into the grain field and into the
chaf at the barn door, and into tho furrow
Of the plow boy. Meanwhile, tho birds In
the nest shiver and complain and call and
wonder why the mother does not come back.
Alb, she hos gone for food. After a while
there Is whirr Of wings and the mother bird
stands on the edge Of the nest and the little
ones open their mouths, and the food Is
dropped in; and then the old bird spreads out
her feathers and all is peace So, sometimes
God leaves US, He.goes or to get brad fQl
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display of the American flag on public in.
situations wa read the first time.

situations was read the first time.
SECOND READING OF HOUSE BILLS.
No. IS. Duties Of superintendent of
public instruction, to committee on educa-
ton; Al, a%bolishing the Office of commits
sioner of immigration, etc, to committee
on state affairs; 10, system of accounts,
same.
Under the third reading of house bills
No. 50 again made its appearance, and Mr..
Stevens moved to amend by inserting what
had been stricken out in line six in com
mittee of the whole.
favor of Mr.. Stevens amendment. He
was opposed TO moving buildings over
growing crops and advocated most earn
| estly the justice of the bill as it came from
the house. The occupant was on this land
as a t~respasser. The United States had
never promised him a title to it.
Mr.. STEVENS amendment was adopt
ed; yeas Ii, nays s.
Mr.. DIESEM offered an additional sec
ton giving owners of buildings until May
LIST to remove the same.
More discussion followed, MI. STEVENS
| opposing the amendment.
Mr.. SMITH did not believe as a general
thing the land had been injured by crop
ing.
MIR. WORST said il might be possible
that in the Red river valley three, four, or
five years cropping might run the land out;
it is not so on the Missouri slope.
Mr.. SMITH said buildings were chatteIs,
and could be moved off anyway.
The amendment was defeated; yeas II,
nays IA.
Mr.. MCCORMACK moved to strike out
section 9. the emergency clauSe-lOst.
On final passage. yeas %, nays 4.
House bill No. 81, flag bill, was read
second time and referred to committee on
public buildings: also, senate bill No. so,
nIual exhibits, etc. to committee on state
affairs.
On Motion of Mr.. WORST the senate adj
| innrnal