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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-02-11
WITH RULE AND PLUMMET.

Grandma's Story of the Things She Made
When Learning to Write.
Harry came running in with great
glee to show his new writing-book, the
first he had ever had.
sit doesn't look much like the first
one / had" said Grandma.
"Why, isn't it as good?" asked Harry.
"Yes, it is much nicer, though it
doesn't make you any happier than
mine did me-" said Grandma looking
at Harry's bright face, Sand then, my
boy, you haven't any plummet.
"Plummet! What is that?" cried
Harry. 81 shouldn't know what to do
with it if | had one."
Grandma laughed. "You don't need
it, my dear, but when went to school
every child had a rule and plummet, for
the books were not lined like yours, and
we had no lead pencils. My plummet
was fiat piece of pewter, pointed at
one end and with hole in the other
end, through which a string was put
and tied to the rule. | can remember
uIldV lily ~, UllC lily IL
before school began, melting the
pewter in the open fireplace. At
the same time my older sister
made my writing-book. She took large
sheets of unruled white paper, folded
them to the right size and sewed them
together with dark covers. The next
morning when started for school with
my new book, my rule and plummet,
my quill and bottle of ink, was as
happy as Queen. Then came grea,
event-the setting Of my first copy by
the teacher; for in those days the teach
ers always set the copies and made the
pens. O, the times were very different
then" said Grandma, as she handed
Harry's book back to him.
81 should say So" said Harry. "And
I'm glad l live now, for I'm afraid
should never learn to write if had tc
use quill and plummet. "-Americar
Apriculturist,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-02-11
MOTIFS AND COMMENTS.

Mrs. GENERAL GRANT is making lit
tie progress with her book. Her eyes
are weak, but not failing her, as report
goes. Whenever she has time, she
writes page or two. but progress is
very slow.
THERE is National Woman's Press
Association and an International Wom-
ans Press Association, and a woman
presides over both in the Office of pres
ident, Mrs. Nicholson, editor of the New
Orleans Picayune. She is said to be very
clever in conversation, and thorough
and successful business woman.
THE Garden of Eden prototype" of
womanhood can no longer be used eff
fectually as a scarecrow to warn wom-
en- away from knowledge. Like the
awe-inspiring Mumbo-Jumbo once used
by savages to terrify too inquisitive
wives into submissive ignorance, that
prototype has long out-lived its use
fulness in that direction.
A SOCIETY has been formed by the
women of Asheville. n. c., which pro-
poses to take action on the servant-girl
question, and promises to abate some Of
the nuisances connected with that pro
life branch of industry. A housekeep-
ers' union was formed whic, will un-
dcrtake to secure good servants, none
other being recommended by them, and
to fix uniform schedule of wages. The
idea will bear importation.
THE sentimental! young woman Of
twenty years ago, charming and sweet
as she was, has given way to a creature
no less charming and sweet because in.
stead of having her eyes turned al
ways up to the stars she has them
coolly but helpfully fixed upon the az
fairs of men and nations, and rome the
less graceful and pleasing because in
place of having a mind that yearns to-
ward The True Woman's Mission
she has definite and decided opinions
upon the business rights of woman, or the
possibilities of what in Boston is called
christian Socialism. IN. Y. Sun.
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FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.
KINDS THAT ARE WANTED.

Wanted-a boy that is manly and just,
One that You feel you may honor and trust,
Who cheerfully shoulders what life to him
brings, ri
Its sunshine and pleasure, or troublesome
things 'la ~
Whose eye meets your own with no shadow
Of fear;
No vile ON the face that is open and clear;
straightforward In purpose, and ready to
For "a bird in the hands worth two in the
bush;"
Who scornfully refuses something to gain,
II 1t brings to another a sorrow or pain;
willing to hold the right ever dear;
Patient, unheeding the scoff or the jeer;
Doing his all with heart elate:-
Wanted, that boy, whatever his state.
Wanted-a girl, not a butterfly gay;
Gentle and sweet in womanly wav.
No leautiful picture, languid and fair,
That always seems labeled "Please handle
with care;'
But one in whose heart is hidden true
worth,
And faithfully follows its mission on earth.
Hopeful and earnest in helping and giving,
Finds plenty to do In the life she is living,
Filling its duties with quiet content,
Whether adverse or pleasant, just as they're
sent
In the garb OF Queen, or in homespun ar
rayed,
Whatever her statiOn-is needed that maid
philadelphia Times.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-02-11
ADVICE FOR SHOPPERS.

Buy Things That Will Wear and Not
Those Which Only Look Pretty.
In one of Miss Edgeworth's moral
tales, there Is a story of little girl
who one day went shopping with her
mother, and whose fancy was so COM
pletely captivated by q purple vase that
she was willing to 60 without pair OF
shoes that she might purchased. When
she goes home, she pours out Of the
vase dark liquid that it contained, and
it is no longer purple vase.
Over and over again do shoppers have
to learn from bitter experience Miss
Edgeworth's very apparent moral-that
we should buy things that will wear.
Iwell remember my first shopping
experience. thought only Of beauty,
and nothing Of utility, as purchased .
gauzy material for gown, which was
pale lavender IN tint. When the gown
was made wore it to visit friend who
lived by the seaside; the return neces'
STATED long walk along the shore
after shutdown, with damp wind blow
ing from the sea. When l reached
home, great was my grief to see that
my fine new gown of cotton and wool
had SO shrunk in the damp salt air as to
be nearly up to my knees. Dampening
and ironing, and letting down." partly
restored it to usefulness but the deli
cate color faded in streaks, and l re-
allied that in buying the gown l had
bought purple vase. The lesson sank
deep, but forgot it when few weeks
ago wanted material to curtain little
nook in a room in my home. l bought
some China silk; it was very pretty,
having a shrimp-pink ground, with
white arum lilies, and green leaves
spreading all over it, and when sus-
pended from brass rod for decorative
effect was good; but the morning sun
rests warm and strong on that spot, and
already the beautiful pink is Flying
out as the painters say. My pretty
curtains are, you see, a purple vase.
The woman who buys parasol for the
handle, or gay-printed muslin that
will not wash, or cheap kid gloves, or
any thing simply because it takes her
eye, will find that she has bought pur-
pie vase.-Ella B. Carter, in Ladies'
Home Journal.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-02-11

They Are q Sensitive People and Need the
Aid Afforded by Appreciative Hearers.
Preachers are called very sensi-
tive class of men, and most of them
will not deny the charge. The charac-
ter Of their work tends to make them
sensitive. And because they are SEN
sitive is the very reason why they need
the help which it is easily within the
power of many, if not all, of their
hearers to render them, especially
when they preach. Any preacher who
is quite Indifferent to the listlessness of
his hearers must be very thick-hided
and dull man, and, of course, poor
and uninteresting preacher. It may
seem to be very small mat
ter, to hearer, to cast his eyes
around the church much of the time
during the delivery of the sermon, as
though the sermon were of no special
interest to him: but it is matter of
much Importance to the preacher. Even
one disagreeable nearer (?) has done
much to hinder some preachers from
doing their best in the pulpit on a single
occasion. On the other hand, even a
thoughtful and attentive boy may
greatly help a preacher. A certain
preacher tells his experience in these
words: ''It was pretty fair sermon,-
so the minister thought; at least, it had
done good in other places. But he be-
gan to suspect that for that Sunday the
lines had fallen to him in unpleasant
places, when just then he noticed on
the front seat, small boy, with big
black eyes. He was sitting bolt up
right; the black eyes were fixed on the
preachers blue eyes, and an electric
message sped between the two pairs of
eyes. The boy did not know it, per-
haps, but the minister did know it.
The sermon was not five-minutes'
sermonette, for children; but the boy
listened just the same. In fact, the
discourse was written for Father A. and
Brother b. and Mr.. c., and for the pillar
behind the pillar; but, as they wouldnot
listen, the. minister began to preach to
the boy.
He warmed to his subject; he recov.
cred his failing grip on this theme and
on the audience. He kept glancing into
those black eyes for encouragement,
and they never failed him, to the very
end. Who was the boy with the black
eyes? No one seemed to know, though
the minister made inquiries after church.
but one thing the minister did know
he helped the preacher, and, in sense
saved the sermon. Let members OF
churches profit by this important lesson
Let them studiously remember, every
time that they go to church, that they
are responsible, in large degree, fol
the effectiveness of the pastors preach
ing, in the matter of attentive listening
While it is of great Importance that thu
pastor should have the power of the
Holy Spirit 10 help him, it is also very
important that he should be helped by
the power of appreciative hearers. TIL,
Waterman.
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tries would be almost incalculable. /

tries would be almost incalculablc. I
once said as much to German gentle.
man who has large school for boys on
the Rhine. Yes" he replied, lit would
doubtless be an excellent thing for
American children; but what would our
boys and girls learn over there?"--a re.
mark which does not give any false i'm.
preston as to the general conceit OF
Germans regarding their system of edu.
cation and training. A thousand re-
joinders sprang to my tongues end as
the American blood in my veins rushed
periodically to the very tips Of my fin.
gers; but, in the heat of the moment,
only this was left for speech: Your
boys would acquire a broader, higher
regard for woman, and your girls would
grow up no longer to tolerate the treat
ment they now receive from German
men"-a prediction that needs whole
separate chapter for its Justification
Mary b. Willard, in Woman's journal
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-02-11
DON'T BE USELESS.
Spread Your Daily Blessings About That
All May BE Helped.

The farmhouse was on fire. It was
ten miles distant from the nearest town
where there was a fire-engine. The
neighbors collected, and according to
old country usage, formed lines to the
nearest well. The full buckets were
passed from hand to hand to the burn
ing dwelling, and the empty ones back
to the well.
Deacon Payne was in the first line;
but the old man was absent-minded
and slow. His thoughts were on his
own house. What if it should take fire?
So he took the pals hesitatingly, passed
them on slowly and awkwardly, and
finally dropped one, and spilled the
water it contained. The farmhouse
would have burned to the ground had
not some of those who stood near the
deacon told him that he had better &c.
out of the line. and leave the work to
be carried on without him.
There are many Deacon Paynes in
the world. There is always some house
on fire in our sight, case of poverty. or
sickness. or misery; burning evil
which hearty and well-directed effort
might put out.
But there are men and women in
every community and family who make
no effort. They have the help in their
pockets, or in their brains, or their
hearts, but it does not go out. The
currents of sympathy and aid stop with
them. There they stop with them.
There they stand, cold and passive, in
the crowd which each day is becoming
more generous and cordial and helpful.
The young reader of these lines prob
ably thinks that they are meant only
for middle-aged or gray-haired people.
Let us see.
Whatever your age, you have some
blessing. given to you fresh each morn.
ing from God. Pass it on.
Is it youth, with its strength and
light-heartedness? Do not keep it fol
the ball-fiel.. Give your tired mother
some of it in a hearty kiss and tende,
word, or such gentle help as you car
render.
Do not disdain to brighten the break.
fast table with school gossip and jokes.
1t will cheer your father all day to fee
that his boy takes him into his young
life. Let every one who comes neal
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-02-11
CHOICE EXTRACTS.

He who gives pleasure meets with
It; kindness is the bond of friendship
and the hook of love; he who sows not,
reaps not.-Chicago Standard.
No one will ever be kept out of
Heaven for not doing enough, but null
titudes will fail to enter in because they
do not love enough.-Ram's Horn.
Men worshipped God, without know
ing it, in the home; and, while profess
ing to worship Him, they bribed Him,
and cringed before Him, in the temple.
Christian Union.
The truth of religion is most pow
erful, not as set forth on the printed
page, but as exhibited in the daily life
Living epistles" are the ones men like
hest to read-ITnited Presbyterian.
Our success in all Christian work.
as Christian work. is measured by our
possession of spiritual power. But we
must not depend for our success on our
feeling that we have spiritual power.
We ought to feel our need of that
power, and trust God to give it to us
as we go on in the path of duty He has
pointed out as ours. s. Times.
One of the fearful features of all
sin consists in the fact That every sin.
full action which one does naturally
disposes him to do another like action.
Thus the case goes from bad to worse,
at each step of the progress becoming
worse, until final and absolute ruin is
the result. The seH-perpetuating and
self-intensifying power Of sin is writ
ten upon the experience of the human
race.-N. Y. Independent.
Have you joy? Out with it. Set
your candle upon the manteipieoe.
When in boyhood, in the country, |
went to prayer-meetings, we went
across the corn-field in groups, and ia.
Their would take lantern and &c
ahead, and we would all follow in the
light of that one lantern, not stumbling
or losing our way. Let your light sc
shine before men! Don't sit daring
prayer-meeting with your head down il
your hands as though You had beer
asleep two weeks. The hoineiiest par
of you is the top of your head Lei
your face shinc.--Talmage, in \. y. Oh
server.
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came back. saving he had had a quarrel

came back, saying he had had a quarrel
with Perry Gantley, and had head
ache. SO he went to bed
The next morning he rugged up
swing in the woods back of the house,
and amused hiIns + for an hour, and
then went fishing. but as he had no
luck. he hardly spoke word at dinner
time.
During the afternoon he read for
few minutes, and then Tux walk
through the woods. returning SO tired
that he was glad to go to bed right after
supper.
Thursday was simply dreadful. 1t
rained all day, and Roswell read until
his eyes ached. Then he tried to sleep,
romped with Rollo awhile, and at last
went to the barn.
Mrs. Hofford followed him presently,
and found him currying Prince.
"Come, Roswell, this won't do" she
said, quickly. mo work"
Roswell threw down the currycomb
with an impatient exclamation, and re-
turned to the house.
He did not make his appearance at all
at supper, and Jennie reported that he
was lying in bed, asleep, she supposed.
Mr.. Hofford smiled, but made no remark.
Friday morning Roswell came down
very early and Mr.. Hofford met him
coming in with an armful of wood.
Here! What does this mean?" he
asked, sternly.
I'm going back to work." replied
Roswell, flushing up, but laughing at
the same time.
1T is not possible you are tired Of
play?"
"No, not tired; but"
''But you think it is more fun whep
sandwitched between work?"
| "Yes, sir"
81 am glad you have made the dis
covery for yourself" said Mr.. Hofford,
with smile. Fun or play is never
thoroughly enjoyable unless we have
earned the right to it by hard work. A
perfectly idle boy or man is neper happy,
and no person knows the absolute pleas
ure in work until they are deprived of
it. 1t is good lesson to Learn, my son,
and l am glad you have learned it so
early."-Karl Winship, in Golden Days.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-02-11
People We all Know.

The man who talks too long in prayer
meeting. ag sp
People who will not have any thing
to do with any thing, unless they can
''boss" the whole business.
The man who gets on stills every time
he prays in public.
The preacher who is always sure the
Lord wants him to go to the church
that offers the largest salary.
The Sunday-school teacher who never
thinks it worth while to study the les
son.
The people who always come into an
audience late, to attract attention and
show themselves.
The people who would do great things
for the Lord, if they could only do
them without costing them something
RAMS Horn.
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FOR SUNDAY READING.
FOR THE REWARD.

would not rest till / am weary,
would not cease till sinks the sun;
Until the work that God brings near ne
Has all been done,
Each work neglected is bereavement,
A loss to some great or small;
Each noble triumph of achievement
Is good for all.
Whatever unforeseen conditions
Around our paths in life prevail,
II we are faithful to our missions
We can not fail.
The soul that never Sights duty,
However irksome, strange or hard,
VIII see at last the undimmed beauty
OF his reward.
Oh, glorious thought, to feel in Heaven
That none by our neglect were harmed
That every task which God had given
Was well performed.
o, let us then, with firm decision,
Do every task, bear every load;
And leave at last, with due submission,
Our work with God.
L. Il. Diekenga in Christian at Work,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-02-11
SLEEP NOT UPON ANGER.
Let Not the Day Close without Free For
giveness for ALL

Let Not the Day Close without Free For
giveness for All.
LET not the sun 60 down upon your
wrath" Sublime and all-suggestive.
duty for people: Forgiveness before sun
down. He who feels the throb of in
dignation is imbecile. He who can walk
among the injustices of the world, in
ficted upon himself and others, with
out flush of cheek, or flash of eye, or
agitation of nature, is either in SYM
pathy with wrong or semi-idiotic. 1t
all depends on what you are mad at,
and how long the feeling lasts, whether
anger is right or wrong. Life is full
of exasperations. Saul after David,
Succoth after Gideon, Korah after
Moses, the Pasquins after Augustus,
the Pharisees after Christ, and
every one has had his pursuers, and we
are swindled, or belied, or misrepre-
sented, or prosecuted, or in some way
wronged and the danger is that health
full indignation shall become baleful
spite, and that our feelings settle down
into prolonged outpouring of temper
displeasing to God and ruinous to our
selves. Nothing is so exhausting to
physical health or mental faculty as a
protracted indulgence of ill-humor. 1t
racks the nervous system. 1t hurts the
digestion. 1t heats the blood in brain
and heart until the whole body is first
overheated and then depressed. Be
side that, it sours the disposition, turns
one aside from his legitimate work, ex-
ponds energies that ought to be better
employed, and does us more harm than
it does our MISUNDERSTANDING, in N.
Y. Observer. hh
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Not Worthy of Adversely.

1t is more or less easy for Christian
to think himself unworthy to receive
health, wealth, prosperity, pleasure. 1t
does not so often occur to him to think
himself unworthy to receive sickness.
poverty, adversely, suffering. And yet
the latter class may well be regarded as
the greater kind of gift of God. Il have
had so much that has been hard TO
bear these last two years, hope may
be worth the discipline" writes an af
ficted Christian mother. But how often
do we think of ourselves as unworthy of
a painful course of discipline?-S. S.
Times
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An Itemized Bill,

The lawyers bill, mostly for trifing
services, covered several yards of fool
soap. as the items enumerated the most
minute details. When the client came
around TO settle he refused to enter the
office. but stood in the door. and hold
ing one end of the bill, unrolled the
voluminous document in the direction
of his legal adviser, with the request
that he receipt it. Come in," said the
lawyer, in his most cordial tones. Not
much, replied his client, you'd charge
me rent If did. Detroit Free Press.
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The Height of Dignity.
no n identified MANI

Sanso-Is he dignified man?
Rockwell, should say he is. Why,
that man could step on a banana peel
without losing his dignity.-Munsey's
Weekly.
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ENCOURAGE THE PREACHER.

L. E. Diekenga, in Christian at Work.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-08-14

The late Sunset" Cox, who 80 long
represented one OF the New York City
districts IN Congress, was an iUveter-
ate jester. A matter off friend
once wrote Cox a lorg letter, the bur-
den 81 which was that he should quit
joking. Hitch your wagon to a star,
and be serious" wrote the would be
mentor. Cox replied; II might hitch
my wagon to the dog-star, and That
would be Sirius, wouldn't ii?" That
must have been en- August Jest for
these ara the days when the dOg-star
RACES, and IL vas a good enough joke
for warm weather. But IL Is really a
serious matter, II you are obliged to
travel in hot weather, 70 select a line
on which YOU journey in comfort.
such one Is "The Burlington, A" which
follows the esst bank q the the Mis-.
sizsipIi for three hundred miles, under
the shadow Of lofty tree-crownod bluff.
on one side and the sparkling waters
Of the river, famed by cooling bret zes,
on the other. For tickets and rates by
this line, call on any ticket agent, or
sd1ress w. j. G. Kenyon. Gen. Pass.
Agent e. y. & y. r. r., ST. Paul,
MINI.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-08-14

The Romans cried vac victisi' "woe 10 the
conquersdf' AZ their t~rtumphs. Today many Of
us are being conquered-Our peace. our rest and
daily appetite wrested from us BY that invader Of
the stomach. dyspepsia. suceor We sue for from
q hundr sources. Temporary relief We some
times obtain. But . hearty meal. the simplest
indiscretion in diet, and the portean imp returns
with redoublsd yigor 10 torment rs. Apsrsinteni
use Of the great anti-dvpeptie and regulating
tonic. HOststtsr's Stomach Bitters, IL bsst ealcu'
lated to drive into permanent baniahmsni ever
form Of indignation, tea1poury or chronic. NJ
les smcaeious h Il for malaria. biliouanssu, con
s~tipation. rheumatism. kidney and bladder all.
msnts. hi remedy Of specific utility and mani
unss over comes them al. 'Tha safeguard, too
against the snsets Of tempsrnturs apt 70 revive an
nffack of"la grtpys."
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-08-14
The World Enriched.

The facilities Of the present day for
he production Of everything that will
conduce TO the material welfare and
comfort Of mankind are almost unlim-
lied and hen Syrup Of Figs was first
produced the world was enriched with
the only perfect laxative known, as is
the only remedy which Is truly pleas
ing and refreshing 70 the taste and
prOmptand effectual 70 cleanse the
system gently In the springtime Or in
fact, At any time. and the better IL il
known the NOR popular It becomse.