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Selections from The Christian NGiglbOr
Rightly to Teach.

There seems u mad rush nowadays
to make education and religion attrac-
tive to the young. The children are
expected to study because it is made SO
pleasant, it ceases to be anything more
than Il very pleasurable excitement.
The first aim, the one essential charac-
terislic of every method must he that
it is short and easy in order to COM
mend it to favor, and rs to religious
exercises in church one is very wear
icd with the constant, the unvarying
demand that they too shall be pleas
ing, attractive, "short and casy,' to
please the young. We must draw"
our young people, we must allure,
charm, entice them with all the de-
vices we can master.
You are stupid old fogy, says a
sprightly reader, not up to modern
methods at all. You want to have ev-
erything unpleasant and solemn.
Permit NE to finish, then judge,
please. Let study bc made attractive,
it ought to be its own attraction, It's
own reward. All that word ought.
1t is suggestive. How largely does it
enter into the moral training, the edu-
cational incentives Of the present day?
Study because you ought to study: my
child. not al,Oays because it is simply
a pleasant thing to do. That is when
the hard places come, that which
seems uninteresting go on; to your un-
trained mind it has no attractions,
then go ahead still because you ought.
1t is this ought which helps when the
first pleasures fail to appear. The
matter is further illustrated in non-at-
tendance upon church services. How
many mothers say in the presence OF
their young children, l never take
them to church because there is moth
ing to interest them; how can I expect
them to keep quiet when they cannot
understand what is said, and when
there is nothing to attract them
These children, four, six, eight years
of age, are allowed to remain at
home because there is nothing to at
tract 1--WE had almost said amuse) them
at church. When does that mother
expect them to form the habit of going
to church? Ten years later she will
be shedding tears over her ungodly
household, which ungodliness is the
result of her own failure in duty.
Should not children be made to so to
church because they ought? 1t may
not always he just the thing they want
to do, but it furnishes al occasion for
educating them in the duties coming
from knowledge of what they ought
to do. Make everything easy and
pleasant for children and young peo-
pie that it is possible to make easy and
pleasant, but do not fear to have them
do some things simply and solely be-
cause they ought to do them. After a
while they will grow to see the pleas
ure and beauty of giving what they
ought, was is owed.
IA short appendix next week.
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The grace of God is gift which he
is always ready to bestow, but God
does not give us any gift for selfish
ones.
Through the influence of several
Senator'S and Romi-h lobbyists. at
Washington, 1896. 900 was appraprlated
to Romish Indian Schools, against
$204 900 for dN other denominations.
Where are we drifting:
The japanese word for farewell
means "If it must he so;" and the
Chinese say $50 away slowly"
1t is estimated that the population
of North Carolina will reach 1880, 900.
This will give her two additional Rep
resentatives in Congress.
The admission of Wyoming as q
State is q notable event, because it
brings into the Union for the first
time Il commonwealth where women
exercise the suffrage upon the same
terms with men. Wyoming was the
first Territory to try this experiment,
and never has shown any disposition
to rctrace the step. rhe admission Of
q woman suffrage State is decided
victory for thc cause, which has not of
late been making much progress in
the older wealths.-Ndtion.
AS TO RENTED FARMs.-Somebod
tells deal Of truth in these six SEN
tences Never rent farm when you
can own one. The man who rents
farm must necessarily add much to the
premises from which he cannot derive
any benefit. If he attempts to crop q
rented farm without doing justice 10
the land, he will suffer loss as well as
the owner. There are many improve
ments of the soil from which the own
er receives the benefit, in the course Of
time, ut the expense Of the renter.
All farms should he rented by mutual
agreement, and all conditions plainly
stipulated.
VENTILATION IN CHURCHES
Many good sermon has fallen dead
on the congregation because Of the
dead air, in the church. How it tries
q preacher to preach in small church
crowded with people, cob-webs hang
ing in corners, dirt on the floor, small
windows, low ceiling, the air thick
and sleep producing, crying children,
yelping dogs, and neighing horses
who could preach under such circum-
stances? "Our preacher seemed to
get in the brush to-day" says a stew
art as he goes home. Of course he
did. Your Gown carelessness in not
making things so man could preach,
piled the brush on him from begin
ming to end. A pastor in Boston said:
"Brcthren, I really believe that if L
were preaching in barrel, you
would put the hung ih." Some men
build churches with little hung hole
windows and then stop them up. The
devil, in more sense than one, is the
'prince of the power Of the air." In
much breathed air he can kill sermons
as easy as shooting tame ducks. Ven
tilate, ventiLdte your churches.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-03

A leading paper in an Eastern city
published, at a late date, an article on
the tariff and adulterations, which
contained some interesting informa
ton. The high price Of imported
wool, for instance, has induced the
manufacturers of so-called wooden
goods to resort to the use of various
Substitutes for the genuine article, and
y'so effectual have these devices for
adulterating woods become that masons
have been driven TO wool as sub iti-
tute for cows hair used to help make
mortar tenacious, the market having
been swept clean by the 'woolen' man
ufacturers. If the wool growers
should come to the woolen mills and
see the piles not merely of rags but of
cows hair, goats hair, dogs hair, and
even some sorts of bark fibre, that are
manipulated into the appearance of
wool and used in making so-called
'woolens,' they would lose whatever
faith they may have in the professions
of protected manufacturers of desire
to promote the farmers interests. ."-'T
Louis Christian Adr0catc.
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1.-THE national reform party" has is.
sued an address to bring together all
reformcrs of our country into one
convention. This is very broad par
ty and it takes in PrOhibitionists,
Knights of Labor, Farmers Alliance,
Union Labor, Industrial Unions, and
all sorts of organizations that have
any grievances against the govern
ment. The address of the committee
contain these words:
"The convention will he held in st.
Louis on Wednesday, the Sd of Sep
tember, 1880. Every one i'll every see
ton of the Union, in sympathy with
the movement is cordially invited to
attend this convention. Fellow-citi-
zens, come together and "pool your is
sues" for the common good. The
hands of the oppressors are upon us.
Will you stand idly by and see your
liberties, one by one, wrcsted from
you? Remember it was Romans who
destroyed Rome. For the address III
full write to w. w. Jones, Secretary,
1872 Madison street, Chicago, I'LL:
Railroad fare reduced to one-thlrd
from st. Louis home. Take your
home ticket agents receipt for your
fare"
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RIGHTE0us JUDGMENT. - Among
the special qualities of charity is this,
that it "thinketh no evil"
The truthful person is slow to accuse
another of untruthl'uiEess, outWardly,
or in his own heart. The honest per-
son is also slow to accuse his neighbor
of dishonesty, and SO all through our
lives we unconsciously judge others Ivy
ourselves. If we are true, upright, ull-
selfish, it is easier than not to believe
that our neighbors may be so also. II
we are scheming, plotting. dcceitful,
selfish, of like character will those we
meet seem to lis likely to be.
So when we hear, as we sometimes
do, accusations banded about against
those we esteem or trust, ii is always
well to consider the source whence
those accusations come, and to make
large allowances for ohliuuity on the
part of the accuscr. 1t may be safely
assumed that the word of him or her
who easily accuses another of false
hood is not to be trusted. II is very
awful ching to tell Il lie, and to fastcn
upon another an imputation Of un-
truthfulness Is serious matter, but to
the habitual triIcr with truth it does
not seem so.
To the pure all things are pure. To
the impure all things are impure. The
vulture has 4 nose for carrion, and for
nothing else apparently. There are
human vultures who seem able to
smell nothing but carrOn.
10 thoughtful persons in middle and
mature life these observations are of
course alphabetical, but to Young peo-
pie they may be of much service.
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P1cNIC.-Amost any boy or girl can
tell you what q picnic is like, but /
wonder how many know why it is SO
called, or that the custom is said to
date only from 1902, not a hundred
years ago.
Then, as now, when such an enter
tainment was being arranged for, 1t
was customary that those who intend
ed to be present should supply the eat
ables and drinkables. Originally the
plan was to draw up list of what was
necessary, which is al excellent one to
follow, for often, when there has been
no previous agreement, it is discover
ed, when too late, that there is too
much of one kind of food and not
enough of another.
The list was passed round, and each
person picked out the articles of food
or drink he or she was willing to fur
nish, and the name of the articl e was
then nickcd off the list. So it was
from these two words, picked and nicE-
ed, that this form of Out-of-door enter
tainment first became known as Il
"pick-and-nick," and then as a picnic,
the old-fashioned name 70" the basket
parties of to-day.
Harper's Young People.
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A Psychological Mystery.

A friend of mine in New York has a
pet cockatoO, which anuses the family
greatly with its odd caprices. 1t is u
beautiful bird, snow-white with the
palest ulphur-colored crest. 1t has its
cage in one corner of its MISTRESS
room, near q window, and its perch
stands here also. 1t hates to he shuI
I'D in the cage, and will cry and scream
and make the most doleful noises
when it is not allowed freedom. This
rarely happens now, however, al
though until few months ago, Polly
had to be shut up when the family
were out of the room, for she was very
naughty, and would tear things t.
pieces with her sharp bill, as though
She was doing something funny. The
moment she would hear a footstep she
would jump on to her perch, look So
innocent, and when the door opened
she would call out, "Polly's here" a.
though she had been there all the time.
No matter how much she was scolded,
she would repeat the performance the
next time she was left, so she had to be
shut up.
But quite by accident her mistress
found out how she could keep Polly in
her own corner, and now she is never
shut up. 1t happened this way: Last
Christmas Polly's master, just for fun,
bought his wife big japanese doll.
1t was as large as real baby, and had
the wisest, funniest look on its Japa-
nese face that ever you saw. Instant
lv Polly saw it she was perfectly awe
struck. What she thought it was no.
body could tell, but she would sit and
watch it as if fascinated, but she never
could be induced to go near it. If ii
was brought to her she would give the
aueerest little cry, and crouch down
behind her cage, her crest standing up
right on her head. She never can be
induced to pass it even to 60 to her
mistress. And so now when Polly is
left alone, Mrs. Jap is set upon Mrs.
Clark's work table, and that is drawn
little way from the corner. Polly
never attempts to 60 by but she wall
ders from cage to perch, looks out of
The "indow at passers-by, but never
goes near the doll. Once and a while
she will sit on the top of her cage, and
scream defiance ut it, but she always
Keeps ut respectful distance, and has
one eve on the cage door so that she
may retreat in case her guard makes a
demonstration. She is a subdued Pol
ly, and although 20 doubt she raves
inwardly, she is obliged TO forego her
propensity for tearing things to pieces.
But everybody who sees the funny
sight wishes it were possible to know
what Polly really thinks of the doll.
and what the strange influence is that
this inanimate object exercises over
the mischieyous bird.
suite joy White, in March Wide
.AWuEe.
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TIE MORNING DRESS.-The ideal
morning dress for women who do their
own work is of calico, not SO dark us to
be gloomy in its suggestions, nor So
light as to show every spot that may
happen to soil it. 1t is simply but
tastefully made, so that laundering il
will not be difficult or tedious, and SO
that it will not be too nice to wear ev-
cry day.
"When any body knocks at oul
door, said a wealthy farmer, "all the
women folks run and hide; they don't
want to he seen with their old clothes
on"
They were sensible women, TOO, to
run and hide. No one who saw them
neatly atlired in their afternoon dresses
could have believed that such "nice"
women had been around the house all
the morning in old, worn, dirty, spot
ted, highly-trimmed cashmeres and
merinos, with unkempt hair, with no
collars about their necks, and looking
like any thing else than ladies, as they
prided themselves Oh being.
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What difference it makes to 4 law
yer from which side he looks at Il case
In trial before the court one lawyer
offers to prove that the contestant was
Il drunken brute, who beat and other
wise abused his sister to such an extent
that she finally married to be released
from him. On the other side the law
yer will prove that this same man was
so lovely and selEsacri1icing that he
forbade himself the joys of matrimony
and lived poor, lone bachelor for his
beloved sisters sake.
Buffalo Commercial.
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Printed matter is measured by
"ems," the letter "m" being the unit.
The following compilation is 10y Pro
fessor A. p. Lyon The Bible contains
3,50O,OO0 GEMS ;. Webster's Dictiona-
ry, 2O,0O0,000: Johnson's Cyclopeda,
5G,OOO,0OO; Chambers Encyclopedia,
5s,OOO,OOO Appleton's Cyclopedia, co.
OOO,0O0; and Encyclopedia Britannica,
lao, 100000
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The rare ceremony Of dvorcing a
woman from her dead husband, accord
ing to the requirements Of the old Mo-
sale law, took place recently in the
B'Nai Jacob synagogue, Louisville,
Ky. The woman's husband was kill
ed by tramps last summer. She had
no children, and the old law Of the or
thodoX Jew is that in such a case the
dead mans eldest brother is to marry
the widow and raise up children in the
name of the deceased. The woman,
however, did not desire to marry her
husbands brother, nor he, her. Ac-
cordingly, she had to be divorced from
her dead mate. The ceremony can on
ly be performed Ly two orthodox Jew
ish rabbis acting in conjunction. AS
these could not be found in Louisville,
they were imported from Chicago for
the occasion. An admission fee of %
cents was charged, and quite num-
ber of persons witnessed the rcmarka-
bic ceremony.
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Deaths.

Mrs. Il. F. Griffin died in Columbia, August
%.
Prof. Adolphus Kocppcr, an instructor OF
music, Columbia, died August -, 1890, aged
~.
Miss Mary a. Baughman, Columbia, died
August IL 1890.
George Ncttles, colorcd, Abbcvillc County,
lost his life, Augt!sL lG, by going into an old
well in which was deadly gas. Press dnti
Banner.
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Eight passengers and two trainmen
were killed and twenty-one injured by
IN accident, August 10, to train on
he Old Colony railroad, near Quincy
NJ
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or the o. teachers in tEc public
schools of Dubuque. Iowa, 81 of them
were themselves educated in those
schools and of these 81 teachers, S
are Univcrsalists, II arc Prcsbytcri-
ans, 7are Mcthodists, = are BaEtists,
are members of the Christian Church,
S are Episcopalians, 10 are Congrcga-
ti0nalists, several are Lutherans, and
33 are Catholics.-IRe .I0rthce.
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Johnny's Goat Team.

by JOHN HOWARD JEwErr.
This story is true:
A boy once knew
Was taught TO be kind in dream.
1t happened this way,
His father one day
Bought Johnny q Biliy.goat team.
Bass bail and croQuet,
All the games boys play,
His bicycle, tennis and boat,
Were left in disdain.
For he had to train
\ living, long-sutfering goat.
To fully equip
The team, new whip
Was added never knew why
For Billy was kind,
He knew how to mind,
And always was willing to try.
When properly used,
Not whipped nor abused,
And loaded with not more than one,
Off Billy would trot.
Though the sun was hot,
Asi he too shared in the fun.
lam sorry to say,
one hot summer day
Forgetting the golden rule
Our Johnny allowed
In the cart 10 crowd
His playmates just out OF school.
The goat tugged his best;
Johnny whipped, anu the Test
All laughed and set up a shout.
He dragged them mile,
But after q while
Poor Billy was all tired out.
He lay down to die!-
Twas useless 10 try
,.tr la mil odds
The boys in diSmay
Then all ran away,
And Johnny was left in despair:
In vain were his cries,
The goat could not rise,
So Johnny sat down there 10 keep
A watch on his team
Now here comes dream
For Johnny was soon fast asleep.
The place on the maps
Where they were, perhaps,
Was Gontville, or some other WIG,
Where goats were MS lrec,
AS goats ought to be,
TO wander DER meadow and hill.
These goats gathered round
Their mate on the ground.
And soon the whole story found out.
They said: "'TiS n shame,
And no one can blame
II ,pe turn this lesson about
They unhitched the goat,
And with Johnny's coat
Made Billy O soft, easy BED;
Then fast 10 the cart,
All ready 10 start,
They hitched little Johnny instead.
The goats jumped In
And made great din,
And said it was jolly good fun
To see boy pull
4 whole wagon full
OF goats, in 4 broiling hot sun.
They jerked on tho bit
And cruelty hit
Poor Johnny a blow on the ears.
Though frantic with pain,
He dared not complain
As silently fell the hot tears.
He painted and puffed,.
Was scolded and cuffed,
Until IT seemed better TO uie
Than suffer such pain;-
The terrible strain
At last woke him up with cry.
He opened his eyes
In a glad surprise
TO find himself safe with his team,
And Billy'S kind face
There beaming. In place
or the cruel wild goats OF his dream.
And after that day,
am happy to say,
Oar Johnny the better plan tried;
For great and small
Dumb creatures anu all,
The golden rule was his guide.
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Have you read Longfellow's 'Resig-
nation ?'n asked one department clerk
of another. "No," was the reply; II
did not know he had resigned"
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A light snow fell at Denver, Col,
August is night.
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The Abbeville Ba kerry.

THE Abbeyil!e bakery Is now making f1ne
l BREADS OF very kind. Cakes baked to
order.
Together with our Bakery we have Fruit
and Candy store, where all goods In that line
are kept. including Cigars and Tobacco.
l.. w. SIGN & co.
Jan. 81, lS9O. If
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The Short Line to

Charleston & Florida.
PORT ROYAL AND WESTERN CAROLINA
RAILWAY co.
TNOMMENCING SiiTDAT. MARCH 2. ls9D, Pas
y scngcr trims will ran follows by 18th Mrrid-
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A citizen Of Edinburgh has made a
donation of almost ninety thousand
pounds to wage warfare against prop
erty, and against the use of opium and
Intoxicating liquor and tobacco. The
money, conveyed to five trustees, 'is
for advancing the cause of total absti-
nence ut home and abroad; and for
arousing the people of Scotland, Eng
land and Ireland, or of the whole
United Kingdom, or of other lands, to
u sense of the dangerous, pernicious
and evil influences and operations Of
the Church of Rome"
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In the future, in all Government
documents and official publications in
Canada, such words as flavor, labor,
honor, ETC., must be spelt with the
"u," according to the English usage,
as favour, labour, honour, and not as
hitherto after the American style.
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The wealth Of the United States Is
unotficially estimated at 81 800, 900, an
increase in ten years of u per cent.
England's wealth was placed at S5O,-
000, 900, 900 in 1855, but divided among
Il amaller population than that Of the
United States while the value OF
Frances property is put at $50, 900, ,OOo,-
600. Taxes in England average $50
per capita, and in the United States
$3.50.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-03-06
srATE cOxvFxrIoy cALLEp.
Salem Within Three Votes Of Being
Selected. and a Little United Ae-
iIen Wouid Have Secured If.

County Chairman Burnett, who
attended the meeting Of the RepuI,-
Iican State Central Committee at
Portland Wednesday, as proxy
from Marion county, returned last
night. The attendance was large,
aud great interest taken. There was
discussion over place Of holding
convention. Portland aud Salem
were the only candidates aud on
rollcall the former got IL votes and
Salem got nine. Thos. II. Tongue,
Of HillsborO, Washington county,
argued strongly in favor Of Salem,
and the member from Marion was
also ably sustained by leading men,
such as +. ID. McCully, OF Joseph,
w. j. SnOdgrass, Of La GraDde, and
others. Great credit is due Mr..
Burnett for his energetic rustic and
favorable showing for the Capital
City. Another year and sentiment
in favor Of Salem will have grown
20 that no power can keep 1t away.
Date set April 10.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-03-06
Who Is Going East ?

tits an ndispui8hle n,ct that The hand.
soluest Ncstlhule trains tnut arr nov run
ON the American 60 .tinent ar those ON
the burlington Route; leaving from Union
depot IN htuNtr, also -. Paul, uumrdl
utHly ON the arrival of an through trains
fNlm the west, The hrsl aud se,e,nd class
coaches are mngniaccut.th .thc reclining rhai
cars superb, The Pullman slccpers extreme.
ly luNuriauL ana palace Burlington dining
cNrs The next time Nou go UltSt tn Kansas
t1tN, Chlci-u or ~ louis, 10 you mcuIiyu
20 the ticket HgVnt TINT you want. Nour
Ticket To read NOM Denver, omaha, Kan.
sas cay or - lAul, over the Burliugtnn
ronte, YOU viii get IL, and you will ALWAYS
hv glUd of 10,
Il You gp hy the way of the Northern or
canadian laclnc, the Sicgaat NcstIhulr
lmins az "lhc hurlington r,ute. between
~, 1u,, Chicago aud ~. Louis wilt cirry
YOU along no eastern shore of the MiSsis,
>lpp river Cor dettuce of "a mites
amidst scrncrN that enuof be- surprised:
or liNou ~ NiN the Union, or Siutharn
tUcluc, uHd Ncur tickct READS Mia Tho
Huntington Route tnm Dhyvnue or tlrn
Nvr, Nuu WIZ pass Through an the thriving
culvs ana towns located I'M what Us pln.
uhrlN known us the "li,nu nf the cinii
neni,' f'F Wuhcr Information upply to
\. a sheldon, General Agent. - llr,t
street. tNr''ahd, orrgon, 35ttw